MY PARENTS 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 But my parents, especially my mother, she has ears like a goddam bloodhound.
3 I thought of maybe hanging up if my parents answered, but that wouldn't've worked, either.
4 In the first place, my parents are different religions, and all the children in our family are atheists.
5 When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave.
6 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.
7 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.
8 I figured my parents probably wouldn't get old Thurmer's letter saying I'd been given the ax till maybe Tuesday or Wednesday.
9 In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
10 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.
11 Some new guy I'd never seen was on the car, so I figured that if I didn't bump smack into my parents and all I'd be able to say hello to old Phoebe and then beat it and nobody'd even know I'd been around.
12 IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.