The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Context: Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye, and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
“It is not crazy to want to know the past. It is only crazy to live there, like so many of the aristocracy.”
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 24 (p. 131)
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Jane Yolen 28
American speculative fiction and children's writer 1939Related quotes
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“Oh darlin…
In a sky full of people, only some want to fly,
Isn't that crazy?”
"Crazy"
Seal (1991)
Context: Oh darlin...
In a sky full of people, only some want to fly,
Isn't that crazy?
In a world full of people, only some want to fly,
Isn't that crazy?