Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.

I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.