J. D. Salinger Quotes

No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

I love touching. I always touch people.

How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?

I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any problem at all." "I don't think it's that simple." "Sure it is." "The earth moved," she said softly. "That has to be more than bodies communicating.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.

I can understand companionship.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

How we need another soul to cling to.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.

I think more people need to make out.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Even the strongest man needs friends.