“Crooked spin can't come to rest,I'm damaged bad at best.”

“Me?! What? I don’t know, unless I must go to the dictionary and learn what a crook is. I’ve never been a crook. … I'm saying I'm not a crook, I have never been a crook. I will never be a crook.”

“There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.”

“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”

“Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.”

“They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.”

“You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”

“The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning
all the rest is just bullshit. ~ Authority”

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,
it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us”

“A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.”