If you can’t, or won’t, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. Everything everybody does is so - I don’t know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. Though we’ve talked and talked and talked, we’ve all agreed not to say a word. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy. This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts. If she’s determined to have a nervous breakdown, the least we can do is see that she doesn’t have it in peace. That’s the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. “I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, ” he said. Why’s it so sunny?” she repeated.Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I either get so bored or so goddamn preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he’d break his chair over my head I can’t even sit down to lunch with a man any more and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting an eyelash. I’m a twenty-five-year-old freak and she’s a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. We’re freaks, the two of us, Franny and I.
It was a station-platform kiss-spontaneous enough to begin with, but rather inhibited in the follow-through, and with somewhat of a forehead-bumping aspect. She threw her arms around him and kissed him.
The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving. He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. She was not one for emptying her face of expression.Īnd I can’t be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. Keep him in mind if you say it, and him only, and him as he was and not as you’d like him to have been. Francis and Seymour and Heidi’s grandfather all wrapped up in one. “If you’re going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Let these quotes inspire you! Franny and Zooey Quotes We compiled a list of 23 quotes that best summarise the message of J.D. If you’re looking for the best Franny and Zooey quotes you’ve come to the right place.
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