Pencey Quotes & Sayings

This isn't about letting you stay in control. This is about making you lose your mind. I say when you're ready, and I plan to take my time getting you there. — R.K. Lilley

He hadn't stiffened up or anything. I just wasn't used to dressing guys, even if they were dead. — Warren Moore

We belong together in love, in faith and in spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while - I admit it - but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them. — J.D. Salinger

I guess I feel like grief is this huge part of everything," I say in a burst. "But you're supposed to act like it's not. — Meg Wolitzer

I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if you saw their pictures in the Year Book. They'd look like they had big noses or their ears stuck out. — J.D. Salinger

The daughter sat down too and watched him with a cautious sly look as if he were a bird that had come up very close. — Flannery O'Connor

I had a hard time when I came back to Sweden and started school, because I looked different. And we moved to a really small town on the west coast of Sweden, and there were no brown people around. It didn't really get any better until I started music school at about 10 years old. — Seinabo Sey

He stuck around till around dinnertime, talking about all the guys at Pencey that he hated their guts, and squeezing this big pimple on his chin. He didn't even use a handkerchief. I don't even think the bastard had a handkerchief, if you want to know the truth. I never saw him use one, anyway. — J.D. Salinger

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India. — Devdutt Pattanaik

Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are. — Big Sean

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. — Will Harvey

the breaking of the interest slavery of productive work in all professional fields will grant it the primary position due to it. Money will once again be returned to its sole appropriate role of being a servant in the enormous enterprise of our national economy. It will become once again what it is, an indication of performed work and therewith the way will be paved to a higher goal, the rejection of the frenzied financial greed of our age. — Gottfried Feder

It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win. — J.D. Salinger