Some interesting parts I read in Franny & Zooey, written by J.D. Salinger:
"'We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I,' he announced, standing up. 'I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible.'"
"'It's us,' Zooey repeated, overriding her. 'We're freaks, that's all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that's all. We're the Tattooed Lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, till everybody else is tattooed, too'"
The book is written in two parts. The first one of Franny, kept me so incredibly interested. I played out the words in my head as if what I was reading was a short film in black and white. I loved it.
The second part, Zooey, also had its interesting parts. Given the two quotes above, I related to what he said, but on a different level. I sometimes think that my parents divorcing when I was a baby makes me a freak because of the aftermath, for lack of a better term, that later came to my life. I see in my brother and I that we would be willing to give everything we have to someone we love so they won't go away, and I think that stems from the very plain and simple fact that our mother left us.
In those quotes Zooey talks about his and Franny's older brothers Seymour and Buddy. And though when Zooey says they are freaks and his reasoning is the things their brothers taught them, I relate in a similar way, but of what I've experienced of an outcome.
