- _“He was the only guy I even slightly felt like talking to in the whole school. He was intelligent that way-he was really intelligent. He was the only one, besides Ackley, I'd want to have for a roommate if I roomed with anybody.”_
-_ “You know that song 'If a body catch a body coming through the rye'? I'd like - sort of - to catch them. I really would.__"
> "If you're going to spend much time around here with me. You don't understand that James was my kid brother. He wasn't a goddam genius though..." (222).
“It’s funny. You hate living, but you never want to die” (155).