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"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."  J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 22.

...I feel that this excerpt connects with my quote because, I feel that him talking about catching the kids, so they don't fall, shows that he doesn't want the kids to be all alone, and he doesn't want them to get hurt. But I also think that Holden himself is lonely, and that inside he wants to be caught, and since there's no one to catch him, he wants to catch other children, so they're safe, and don't have to feel saddened like I think he is...