Quotes About Holden Caulfield From Catcher In The Rye

#1. I was surrounded by phonies ... They were coming in the goddam window.

J.D. Salinger

#2. Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.

Michael Jordan

#3. Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

Shepard Fairey

#4. I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

George Burns

#5. I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

Taylor Swift

#6. What contentment brings is greater than what discontentment takes away.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Charles Curtis

#8. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.

J.D. Salinger

#9. Don't pull your love out on me baby.

Joe Frank

#10. I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#11. Men were beasts. Everyone knew that.

Gregory Maguire

#12. When the cow jerks away, it'll yank the door open."
"But what's going to make the cow jerk away?" asked Little Richard.
"You're going to milk it," said Slank.
"But I don't know how to milk a cow!" said Little Richard.
"Exactly.

Dave Barry

#13. Misery has a top, but no bottom. So you have to climb out.

Marty Rubin

#14. He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.

J.D. Salinger

#15. I felt for the first time that the library belonged here. The house was reclaiming its spirit, and the library, which had stood aloof and apart for so many years, was turning back into what it was always meant to be: the heart of this home.

Ruth Reichl

#16. It is amazing how your life changes when you embrace the reality that you're better than the life you've settled for.

Steve Maraboli

#17. Taking good care of yourself means the people in your life receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.

Lucille Zimmerman

#18. Don't tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

- Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger