Quotes & Sayings About Holden's Isolation

I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist. — Nathan Fielder

He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human. — P.G. Wodehouse

I like pros, especially when it comes to tennis and rent boys" - and here I'm really wondering if the pun on prose consolidates Bruce's feeling toward it versus poetry under the sign of sex, which Bruce sometimes pays for, in order to direct us toward the pleasure of its use-function when monetised, a pleasure seldom associated with poetry, and one that might lead to the company of more pros. He continues: "If I can get a twofer, and the trick looks like Rafael Nadal, I'm in heaven. — Andrew Durbin

Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno."
"Why Fresno?"
"Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice. — Richelle Mead

Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings. — Aziz Ansari

I mean, how sad is it that I needed a freaking Facebook profile to tell me my boyfriend was no longer my boyfriend? As if Facebook is the official record keeper of relationships and you have to confirm all breakups and hookups with this sacred online registrar before you can consider them certified and approved. — Jessica Brody

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one. — Bernard Crick

Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world? — Toba Beta

You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you. — Derwin L. Gray

One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants. — Susanna Clarke

I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me. — Valerie June

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping. — Don Roff

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't. — Albert Camus

Sanity is a valuable possession: I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. — Margaret Atwood