Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

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

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.

There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers’ face.

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

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.