“Anyway, I keep picturing all
these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.
Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me.
And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.
What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.
That's all I do all day.
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 like to be.”
Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me.
And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.
What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.
That's all I do all day.
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 like to be.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in
the Rye
