![]() ![]() I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I'd just be theĬatcher in the rye and all. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. And I'm standing on the edge of someĬrazy cliff. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Holden about Phoebe: "She was about a thousand miles away" Phoebe to Holden: "You don't like anything that's happening. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway" You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. "Certain things they should stay the way they are. "God, I love it when a kid's nice and polite when you tighten their skate for them or something. It made me feel not so depressed any more" "The cars zoomed by, brakes screeched all over the place, his parents paid no attention to him, and he kept on walking next to the curb and singing 'If a body catch a body coming through the rye.' It made me feelīetter. It always ends up making you blue as hell" "You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. "You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl" All I did was close the window and walk around the room with the snowball, packing it harder" ![]() Hydrant, but that looked too nice and white, too. At a car that was parked across the street. ![]() "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life" And how you should play it according to the rules" 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. "I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. Going into it, if you want to know the truth" ![]() and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like. Most of the following quotes are Holden's narration (as opposed to spoken dialouge). Page numbers refer to the Little, Brown, and Company edition (c. The Catcher in the Rye Quotes with Page Numbers ![]()
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