Franny and Zooey Visions of America Quotes

TINA […] (Looks out window) I hate this rain. Sometimes I see me dead in it.

RICK (quietly): My darling, isn't that a line from "A Farewell to Arms"?

TINA (Turns, furious): Get out of here. Get out! Get out of here before I jump out of this window. Do you hear me?

RICK (grabbing her): Now you listen to me. You beautiful little moron. You adorable, childish, self-dramatizing— (Zooey.4.5-8)

"Why? Because he is, that's all. Probably because it's paid off. I can tell you one thing. If he's worried about Franny at all, I'll lay odds it's for the crummiest reasons. He's probably worried because he minded leaving the goddam football game before it was over – worried because he probably showed he minded it and he knows Franny's sharp enough to have noticed. I can just picture the little bastard getting her into a cab and putting her on a train and wondering if he can make it back to the game before the half ended." (Zooey.5.29)

"You just call in some analyst who's experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television, and Life magazine every Wednesday, and European travel, and the H-Bomb, and Presidential elections, and the front page of the Times, and the responsibilities of the Westport and Oyster Bay Parent-Teacher Association, and God knows what else that's gloriously normal – you just do that, and I swear to you, in not more than a year Franny'll either be in a nut ward or she'll be wandering off into some goddam desert with a burning cross in her hands." (Zooey.5.71)