- "You-you alone- will have the stars as no one else has them." -LPP
- "You have great truths within you if only anyone would bother to look."
- “He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” -The Great Gatsby
- “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.” -J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- "Not a wasteland, but a great inverted forest/with all the foliage underground." -J.D. Salinger, The Inverted Forest
- "You are not the reflection of those who can't love you."
- "We are not responsible for what we have come to be."
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