Holden

"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."


The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 3
By J. D. Salinger
Published 1951

Curiouser and curiouser!

The moon looked an awful lot like the Cheshire cat’s smile tonight. Some say that it is a bad omen though like the famous cat’s enigmatic grin, perhaps it just means that there is a little sense of mischief in the air. That's not always a bad thing, by the way.

One day, Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?” was his response. “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, it doesn’t matter.” − Lewis Carroll

For you, a thousand times over.

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”





The Kite Runner, Chapter 11
By Khaled Hosseini
Published 2003

Southern Gothic

Happy Father’s Day.

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."


To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11
By Harper Lee
Published 1960

He had one of those rare smiles...

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..."


The Great Gatsby, Chapter 9
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published 1925