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

More from Franny and Zooey

• 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.
• You can’t just walk out on the results of your own hankerings.
• Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
• She looked nice, smoking. She inhaled and all, but she didn't wolf the smoke down, the way most women around her age do. She had a lot of charm. She had quite a lot of sex appeal, too, if you really want to know.
• She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she reached puberty.