But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.

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.

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.

I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.

Slowly would be better than not at all.