D. Salinger
D. Salinger
point reached saying sure totally
We have now reached the point where we are totally sure what we are saying is true.
exclamation-points paradise observation
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
good
The satisfaction was short-lived, but very very good while it lasted.
It's you I hate. You are a snooper and a thief.
bad care hanging hate leave leaving left mean places sad schools trying
What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by, or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.
government russians unless
We don't want to get the Russians involved, but unless the U.S. government cooperates, we may have to.
people plotting suspect
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Yes. That's it. That's the document. Where did you get it?
hell instead saying
Why the hell don'tcha, instead of keep saying it?
funny memorable missing
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
mean scared feds
Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
appears happening thats
To you everything thats happening in the world appears phony, to be something other than what it really is, right?
nice two freak
We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.
morning mistake nice
Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.