Name: Nine Stories
Author: J.D. Salinger

I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone…which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

J.D. Salinger

A small carved wooden horse with a knotted rope mane and a comb beside it on green felt. — Original artwork

Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

J.D. Salinger

A black rotary telephone with a stretched coiled cord and a small brass megaphone beside it on yellow cloth. — Original artwork

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.

J.D. Salinger