J.D. Stroube quote: "The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness."

It wasn’t that she necessarily wanted to “socialize” at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadca...
J.D. STROUBE

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivio...
J.D. STROUBE

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect ha...
J.D. STROUBE

Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the e...
J.D. STROUBE

All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can�...
J.D. STROUBE

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues...
J.D. STROUBE

My power grew angry that it was confined to my petite frame and pulled against my taut skin. Growing...
J.D. STROUBE

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and ...
J.D. STROUBE

There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that ...
J.D. STROUBE

I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screa...
J.D. STROUBE

Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow; that I cou...
J.D. STROUBE

He moved like a bird; twitching and bunching his shoulders. His head angled back and forth to watch ...
J.D. STROUBE

My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting w...
J.D. STROUBE

No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have ...
J.D. STROUBE

Death is deceitful, pretending that peace is on the horizon. The truth is that chaos is left in its ...
J.D. STROUBE

Their screams would echo through the house and reverberate against my eardrums until my mind would f...
J.D. STROUBE

I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.
J.D. STROUBE

Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness wi...
J.D. STROUBE

I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. The...
J.D. STROUBE

Smiling, Vixen sat up and kneeled at the edge of the mattress. “Mmmm… I missed you.” She said,...
J.D. STROUBE

Mmmm… stay.” Her voice was barely audible, as she grazed her lips against mine and her head fell...
J.D. STROUBE

Life is supposedly filled with paths that enable unlimited choices, but that is a blatant lie. No on...
J.D. STROUBE

What you are or where you came from is not important. It is who you are and the choices you make, th...
J.D. STROUBE

I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a...
J.D. SALINGER

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.
J.D. ROBB

I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.
J.D. SALINGER

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that ...
J.D. SALINGER

Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in...
J.D. ROBB

This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling ...
J.D. SALINGER

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to b...
J.D. SALINGER

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. T...
J.D. SALINGER

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J.D. SALINGER

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J.D. SALINGER

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because w...
J.D. ROBB

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?
J.D. SALINGER

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look ...
J.D. SALINGER

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D. SALINGER

He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to ...
J.D. SALINGER

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay a...
J.D. SALINGER

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls."
"It's not a fashio...
J.D. ROBB

...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even so...
J.D. VANCE

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J.D. SALINGER

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 ...
J.D. SALINGER

when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.
J.D. SALINGER

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature...
J.D. SALINGER

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightene...
J.D. SALINGER

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
J.D. SALINGER

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J.D. SALINGER

I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even kn...
J.D. SALINGER

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
J.D. SALINGER

Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
J.D. SALINGER

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.
J.D. SALINGER

Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse ...
J.D. JORDAN

I’ve survived a lot of things, and I’ll probably survive this.
J.D. SALINGER

I thought so hard I got a headache.
J.D. COBB

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
J.D. SALINGER

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J.D. SALINGER

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enoug...
J.D. SALINGER

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
J.D. SALINGER

If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And...
J.D. SALINGER

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D. SALINGER

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of thos...
J.D. SALINGER

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants ...
J.D. SALINGER

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy...
J.D. SALINGER

I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless t...
J.D. SALINGER

She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies ...
J.D. SALINGER

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to ha...
J.D. SALINGER

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, hol...
J.D. SALINGER

Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your fucking brains. Hand...
J.D. ROBB

... If you tried to touch my woman she'd break your dick off like a twig then stick it up your arse.
J.D. ROBB

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time
You turn ar...
J.D. SALINGER

Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.
Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever...
J.D. SALINGER

Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to...
J.D. SALINGER

Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm no...
J.D. SALINGER

My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minu...
J.D. SALINGER

Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.
J.D. SALINGER

People never notice anything.
J.D. SALINGER

It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yell...
J.D. SALINGER

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J.D. SALINGER

That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J.D. SALINGER

Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sink...
J.D. GREEAR

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eyes. In every gesture, dignity and love.
J.D. ROBB

It’s history. It’s poetry.
J.D. SALINGER

Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
J.D. SALINGER

I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
J.D. SALINGER

The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be...
J.D. SALINGER

I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.
J.D. SALINGER

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J.D. SALINGER

Mothers are all slightly insane.
J.D. SALINGER

Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I’m some sort of...
J.D. VANCE

Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us ...
J.D. VANCE

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J.D. SALINGER

After all, I wasn’t even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because bein...
J.D. BREWER

The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we coul...
J.D. GREEAR

I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. SALINGER

It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER

I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn...
J.D. SALINGER

Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev...
J.D. SALINGER

People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.
J.D. SALINGER

Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i...
J.D. SALINGER

Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and...
J.D. SALINGER

D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know w...
J.D. SALINGER

That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. SALINGER

I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometime...
J.D. SALINGER

I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. An...
J.D. SALINGER

As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his pri...
J.D. SALINGER

Rudford lay on his back in the grass and watched great cotton clouds slip through the sky. Peculiarl...
J.D. SALINGER

چیزی که دنبالش می‌گشتم یه جور احساس خدافظی بود. می‌خوا...
J.D. SALINGER

Think about this truck. Make believe this is not the darkest, wettest, most miserable Army truck you...
J.D. SALINGER

I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a...
J.D. SALINGER

Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige th...
J.D. SALINGER

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange...
J.D. SALINGER

I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw...
J.D. SALINGER

I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER

If or when I do start going to an analyst, I hope to God he has the foresight to let a dermatologist...
J.D. SALINGER

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world...
J.D. SALINGER

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER

Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your...
J.D. SALINGER

I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-bloo...
J.D. SALINGER

Give me an honest con man any day.
J.D. SALINGER

You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J.D. SALINGER

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you ha...
J.D. SALINGER

I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.
J.D. SALINGER

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J.D. SALINGER

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, ...
J.D. GREEAR

Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls.

Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm ...
J.D. ROBB

She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.
J.D. ROBB

Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River.

Eve: ...
J.D. ROBB

Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?

Roarke: You'...
J.D. ROBB

Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it...
J.D. ROBB

No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid,...
J.D. ROBB

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER

When she lay curled against him, her skin dewed from passion, there was still that small, cold place...
J.D. ROBB

You look like a really well-dressed pirate carting around an ugly treasure chest.
J.D. ROBB

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J.D. SALINGER

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, som...
J.D. SALINGER

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a whil...
J.D. SALINGER

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or s...
J.D. SALINGER

This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.
J.D. SALINGER

The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody'd say something smarter than he had.
J.D. SALINGER

I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn�...
J.D. ROBB

He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just se...
J.D. SALINGER

As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.
J.D. BREWER

Everything is inspiration. If you look at the world as the incredible place it is, then each moment ...
J.D. MEANS

Roarke: "I'll drop you."

Eve: "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy...
J.D. ROBB

Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me i...
J.D. SALINGER

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
J.D. SALINGER

It is back to basics here,’ Jason said. ‘What women seek to find in a man is dictated by evoluti...
J.D. GALLAGHER

As for her cat, Galahad made an appearance, regally ignored everyone under four feet until he clued ...
J.D. ROBB

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."<...
J.D. SALINGER

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's com...
J.D. GREEAR

We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could ...
J.D. ROBB

Catholics are always trying to find out if you're a Catholic.
J.D. SALINGER

When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick...
J.D. SALINGER

I tell you, mister, if there’s anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it’s knowing righ...
J.D. JORDAN

I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when ...
J.D. SALINGER

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way...
J.D. GREEAR

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God...
J.D. GREEAR

We'd seen it a million times before, since girls on the Tracks rarely knew of loyalty. She'd be gone...
J.D. BREWER

You're no better. Playing dress-up like you know right from wrong. Who made you the fucking hero? J.D. CUNEGAN

By all means, tell the cops about the crazy robot lady with the black leather body suit and the Kill...
J.D. CUNEGAN

So now that you know my truth, let's talk about yours.
J.D. CUNEGAN

Did you seriously just use the word 'loins'?
J.D. CUNEGAN

I fully expect the police to come after me. To which I have just one thing to say: good luck.
J.D. CUNEGAN

But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody-you can be a good guy and do it.
J.D. SALINGER

...Mom equated money with affection...but I never cared about the money. I just wanted her to be hea...
J.D. VANCE

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave ...
J.D. SALINGER

What I couldn’t bring myself to hate was the energy. I reveled in the way it ebbed and flowed as p...
J.D. BREWER

These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're runn...
J.D. SALINGER

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the w...
J.D. SALINGER

It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt l...
J.D. SALINGER

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J.D. SALINGER

The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'...
J.D. SALINGER

People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J.D. SALINGER

People are always ruining things for you.
J.D. SALINGER

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to ...
J.D. SALINGER

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
J.D. SALINGER

is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER

When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom wh...
J.D. SALINGER

The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than th...
J.D. SALINGER

That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I like it whe...
J.D. SALINGER

It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns...
J.D. SALINGER

the sentence im reading is terrific ...
J.D. SALINGER

I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam...
J.D. SALINGER

You never even worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were ha...
J.D. SALINGER

Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls wi...
J.D. SALINGER

What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I proba...
J.D. SALINGER

That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and ...
J.D. SALINGER

I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
J.D. SALINGER

Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if th...
J.D. SALINGER

Every minute with you, Darling Eve, is a minute to treasure."

She slid a glance toward hi...
J.D. ROBB

We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action...
J.D. BERNAL

It's always a pleasure watching you wake up," he commented. "But sometimes I wonder if you want me o...
J.D. ROBB

Roarke, one thing." She walked to him, well aware he was all but snarling with temper. "I haven't ki...
J.D. ROBB

She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar.
J.D. ROBB

By five A.M., her eyes were gritty and her head ached. The single hour’s sleep she had managed to ...
J.D. ROBB

Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency...
J.D. ROBB

In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.
J.D. ROBB

The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness.

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The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness.

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