She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.