Catcher In The Rye Quotes that kills me...

1. Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a goddam toilet seat.
2. I started giving the three witches at the next table the eye again. That is, the blonde one. The other two were strictly from hunger.
3. Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes. Sometimes I can't even look at them, especially if they're with some dopey guy that's telling them all about a goddam football game.
4. I'm always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
5. People are always ruining things for you.
6. Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
7. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down. I like almost anybody in the Bible better than the Disciples. If you want to know the truth, the guy I like best in the Bible, next to Jesus, was that lunatic and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones. I like him ten times as much as the Disciples, that poor bastard.
8. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding.
9. 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.
10. She gave me a pain in the ass, but she was very good-looking.
11. The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. 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. They really do.
12. Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
13. I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do. Some of the good ones do, in a very slight way, but not in a way that's fun to watch. And if any actor's really good, you can always tell he knows he's good, and that spoils it.
14. I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.
15. If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
16. there was a lady sitting next to me that cried all through the goddam picture. The phonier it got, the more she cried. You'd have thought she did it because she was kindhearted as hell, but I was sitting right next to her, and she wasn't. She had this little kid with her that was bored as hell and had to go to the bathroom, but she wouldn't take him. She kept telling him to sit still and behave himself. She was about as kindhearted as a goddam wolf. You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. I'm not kidding.
17. It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
18. It's funny. You take adults, they look lousy when they're asleep and they have their mouths way open, but kids don't. Kids look all right. They can even have spit all over the pillow and they still look all right.
19. If somebody at least listens, it's not too bad.
20. "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. 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. That's all I'd do all day. 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."
21. "This fall I think you're riding for--it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started. You follow me?" --- Mr Antolini
22. 'The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.'" ---Wilhelm Stekel.
23. "I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you." ---Mr Antolini
24. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of hose deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone.
25. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "F*ck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.
    

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Love, Love, Love

1. Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.
2. “I love you, not because you are perfect, but because you are so perfect for me.“
3. Love is everything it’s cracked up to be… It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
4. You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.
5. “When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.”
6. In a relationship, there’s always someone who loves more than the other.
7. Don’t find love. Let love find you. That’s why it’s called falling in love, because you don’t force yourself to fall — you just do.
8. “It’s not that I can’t live without you, It’s that I don’t even want to try.”
9. The heart wants what it wants…. There’s no logic to those things.
   
10. Lovers do not meet somewhere along the way. They’re in each other’s hearts from the beginning.

The greatest feeling in the world is love

1. “A nightmare? Hardly….. he gave me two tears of happiness, which is two more than a lot of people get.”
2. To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give.
3. Love can happen anywhere at any time and almost always when we least expect it…
4. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
5. You never really leave a place or person you love, part of them you take with you, leaving a part of yourself behind.
6. Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
7. “If we ran out of time and I could pick one moment of all the days that I have lived.. To keep it shining, always new, I’d pick the moment I met you.”
8. The greatest feeling in the world is love, but the worse feeling is to love someone and not be loved back.
9. To love is to have someone special, one who you can always depend to be there through the years sharing laughter and tears as a partner, a lover, a friend.
10. “I may not get to see you as often as I like. I may not get to hold you in my arms all through the night. But deep in my heart I truly know, no matter what I do, you’re the one that I love, and I can’t let you go.”

Love Is...

1. Love is, giving someone the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.
   
2. Don’t settle for the one for the one you can live with… wait for the one you can’t live without.
3. Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
4. “If something happens and you lose me, please don’t think that’s the end, come and find me again.”
5. To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
6. The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree, but still hold hands.
7. Once in your life, you will find someone who will turn your whole world around.
8. “The world is gonna throw us a million reasons why this isn’t gonna work out between us. But, I’m armed with the ONE reason why it will: I LOVE YOU.”
9. You know you truly love someone when you want them to be happy even if their happiness means that you’re not a part of it.
10. True love is not something that comes everyday, follow your heart, it knows the right answer.

I Heart You

• “For a few moments in my life you’ve made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone.”
• “I love you, without any doubts, no hesitations, no limit.”
• “I came alive when I started loving you.”
• “When I grow old, I want you to be the one there beside me.”
• “When we’re together or when we’re apart, you’re first in my thoughts and first in my heart.”
• “Loving you is the second best thing I have done, finding you was the first.”
• “Falling in love with you was the easiest thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
• “I don’t regret the things I have done or the things I have chosen not to do because what ever I’ve done, I must have done something right because I ended up with you.”
• “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.”
• “With you, I am home.”