Holden Describing Ackley Quotes & Sayings

Years from now this will be what I remember when I remember my spring break senior year. It will be this moment right here. The smell of chlorine on his skin. The way the sun dips slow into the water before it disappears. The first time I ever told a boy I loved him. — Jenny Han

A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will. — Baltasar Gracian

Not by discovering new wow things you are able to understand the truth about nature, but by changing the very fundamental way of perceiving anything you've ever seen in daily life. — Toba Beta

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. — Robert Grudin

I just love movies. — Edward Norton

(What was there for Harper Lee to be afraid of, after all? Possibly just this: That she could not outdo Harper Lee.) — Elizabeth Gilbert

Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you? — Adam Selzer