Bananafish Quotes

#1. Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.

George Vecsey

#2. Did you see more glass?

J.D. Salinger

#3. Fuck! I cried, unable to bear another climax, unable to live without it.

Laurelin Paige

#4. When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

Jodi Picoult

#5. Alana, you could never disappoint me," he shifts while still on top of me. "I may have had more lovers than you, and I may take my clothes off for countless women, but you are the only one who can strip me bare.

Marissa Carmel

#6. Be content to live unknown for a little while, and to walk your weary way through the fields of poverty, or up the hills of affliction; for by and by you shall reign with Christ, for he has made us kings and priests unto God, and we shall reign for ever and ever.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. It's no surprise that appeals to a state of mind called faith can relieve symptoms caused, at least in part, by another, perhaps not very different state of mind.

Carl Sagan

#8. Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.

J.D. Salinger

#10. One thing with Sway, when things are starting to press in around you and your mood is as close to shit as it can get, Sway always makes the world a little bit brighter.

Harper Sloan

#11. God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#12. Mother, darling, don't yell at me. I can hear you beautifully," said the girl.

J.D. Salinger

#13. Even a broken tree can bear fruit

Rick Warren

#14. Alright then, I guess that's settled," Lilly said, then she turned to Fane, "Lay a paw on my little girl and you will be a three legged Lassie, got it?"
Fane winced and then asked, "You both do realize I'm a wolf not a dog right?

Quinn Loftis

#15. We live in a collective adrenaline rush, a world of endless promotional/commercial bullshit, that masks a deep systemic emptiness, the spiritual equivalent of asthma.

Morris Berman

#16. It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

Patricia Highsmith

#17. You're presence here has caused a fresh buzz amoung the young women. You need to find one who suits you before you're too old.

Cindy Woodsmall