I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.

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.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.