It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.

Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest.

Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.