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“Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.”

World Writing Mean Young Wise Adults Young Adult Caught Innocent Phrases Embodiment Holden Holden Caulfield

Author:David Levithan

“You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”

Hands Worried Jane Holden Holden Caulfield

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold my arms or give them a pat on the back before they sailed headfirst to the ground? We are all catchers, and it's sad that she doesn't see it. Instead she sees the PHONINESS, she deplores the world even after I point out that I am in it.”

Thinking World Giving Doe Kids Fall Arms Folds Cliffs Phony Catchers Falling Off Holden

Book:The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”

Knows Crazy Catching Catchers Holden Holden Caulfield Standing On The Edge

Author:J. D. Salinger

“There's a right thing to do," Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.”

Littles Said Whole Things To Do Right Thing Holden

Book:Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse (now a major TV series on Netflix)

Source: Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse (now a major TV series on Netflix)

“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.”

Feels Looks Persons Faces Fall Fiction Mets Falling In Love Sixteen Catchers Holden Holden Caulfield

Book:God Shaped Hole: A Novel

Source: God Shaped Hole: A Novel

“What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.”

Ifs Want Done Felt Stupid Window Suicide Bunch Jumping Holden Committing Suicide Holden Caulfield

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?”

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Money always ends up making you blue.”

Ends Money Blue Catchers Holden Holden Caulfield

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars. . . . I'd rather have a horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Littles Talking Worry Crazy Car Horse Sake Miles Brands Trading Scratches Brand New Gallons New Car Holden Holden Caulfield Old Car

Author:J. D. Salinger

“William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.”

Feels Stills Friendship Loss Good Friend Holden His Loss

Author:Glenn Ford

“Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now...She's got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body ... I know she's very good, and I'm not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won't ... but Hannah Storm ... come on now! Stop! What are you doing? ... She's what I would call a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point.”

“Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.”

Mind Dream Eye Faces Hours Saws Staring Holden

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.”

Men Facts Pain Names Given Written Mass Confusion Adolescence Autobiography Unlikely Holden Holden Caulfield Salinger

Author:Stephen Metcalf

“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, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Firsts Kind Truth Parent Born Childhood Parenthood Crap Holden Holden Caulfield

Author:J. D. Salinger

“I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.”

Ifs Looks Littles Bigs Inspiration Running Kids Fields Little Kid Catching Catchers Holden Holden Caulfield Standing On The Edge

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.”

Ifs War Hell Glad Bombs Swear Volunteer Atomic Bomb Holden Holden Caulfield Swear To God Atomic War

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

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