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A review by willowopal
A Girl I Knew by J.D. Salinger
3.0
Beautiful writing amidst small, small traces of war. Nicely represents connection bridging barriers such as language and strict parents.
Nice quotes:
...with all the drollery of fellow pallbearers distributing white gloves among themselves.
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
Maybe I just worried too much about things. Maybe I consistently hesitated to risk letting the thing we had together deteriorate into a romance. I don’t know any more. I used to know, but I lost the knowledge a long time ago. A man can’t go along indefinitely carrying around in his pocket a key that doesn’t fit anything.
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
Nice quotes:
...with all the drollery of fellow pallbearers distributing white gloves among themselves.
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
Maybe I just worried too much about things. Maybe I consistently hesitated to risk letting the thing we had together deteriorate into a romance. I don’t know any more. I used to know, but I lost the knowledge a long time ago. A man can’t go along indefinitely carrying around in his pocket a key that doesn’t fit anything.
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.