AFRAID in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 I was afraid my parents might hear me sneaking in.
2 I was afraid he was going to crack the damn taxi up or something.
3 I was sort of afraid he'd get up and leave on me if I didn't shut up.
4 Then she looked at me and asked me what I was afraid she was going to ask me.
5 I would've laughed, but I was afraid I'd feel like vomiting again, so I didn't.
6 The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody'd say something smarter than he had.
7 I was afraid some teacher would catch me rubbing it off and would think I'd written it.
8 He got so damn excited and all, I was afraid he was going to drive the cab right into a lamppost or something.
9 I MADE IT very snappy on the phone because I was afraid my parents would barge in on me right in the middle of it.
10 But I was too afraid my parents would answer, and then they'd find out I was in New York and kicked out of Pencey and all.
11 Which scared me a little bit, because I was a little afraid she'd go home and tell her father I called her a pain in the ass.
12 The phone was right next to me, and I started to call down and have them send up some breakfast, but I was sort of afraid they might send it up with old Maurice.
13 All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she'd fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say anything or do anything.
14 I'd have enjoyed it even more though, I think, if I hadn't been sort of afraid, the whole time I was talking to them, that they'd all of a sudden try to find out if I was a Catholic.
15 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.
16 I mean I couldn't sit there on that desk for the rest of my life, and besides, I was afraid my parents might barge in on me all of a sudden and I wanted to at least say hello to her before they did.