Nine Stories Quotes

“Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.”
― J.D. Salinger, Teddy

“The reason things seem to stop off somewhere is because that’s the only way most people know how to look at things, he said. But that doesn’t mean they do.”
― J.D. Salinger, Teddy

“I guess so,' Teddy said. 'He told Sven quite a bit about me. It was rather embarassing.'
'Why should it be embarassing?'
Teddy hesitated. 'I said 'rather' embarassing. I qualified it.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories