A dried pink flower and leaf rest on a small wooden ledge. — Original artwork

And I don't just mention it, for God's sake, to show you I was once an Emotional Young Person Just Like Yourself.

J.D. Salinger

An olive-green rotary telephone and a small vase sit on a wooden stool, with the handset off its cradle and a curled cord hanging down. — Original artwork

The handpiece lay detached from its catch, waiting for Franny. It looked almost as dependent as a human being for some acknowledgment of its existence.

J.D. Salinger

A carved wooden hand gripping a thorny rose stem, with a ripe peach lying next to it on a sage green surface. — Original artwork

You can’t just walk out on the results of your own hankerings.

J.D. Salinger