“She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.”

“Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.”

“I've met the girl. She's a zero in my opinion but terrific-looking. I don't actually know that she's a zero. I mean she hardly said two words the night I met her. Just sat and smiled and smoked, so it isn't fair to say.”

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”

“A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing.”

“She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.”

“I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school.”