Good bye, Catcher

«Voglio dire che ho lasciato scuole e posti senza nemmeno sapere che li stavo lasciando. È una cosa che odio. Che l'addio sia triste o brutto non me ne importa niente, ma quando lascio un posto mi piace saperlo, che lo sto lasciando. Se no, ti senti ancora peggio.»

«I thought it was 'If a body catch a body,'" I said. "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'd 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. I know it's crazy.»

(Jerome David Salinger, Il giovane Holden - The Catcher in the Rye, 1951)