She stared avidly into space, as...

“ She stared avidly into space, as nightmare-recallers do. There were half circles under her eyes, and other, subtler signs that mark and acutely troubled young girl, but nonetheless no one could have missed seeing that she was a first-class beauty. Her skin was lovely, and her features were delicate and most distinctive. Her eyes were very nearly the same quite astonishing shade of blue as Zooey’s, but were set farther apart, as a sister’s eyes no doubt should be—and they were not, so to speak, a day’s work to look into, as Zooey’s were. Some four years earlier, at her graduation from boarding school, her brother Buddy had morbidly prophesied to himself, as she grinned at him from the graduates’ platform, that she would in all probability one day marry a man with a hacking cough. So there was that in her face, too.

— Franny and Zooey (via matthewrobison)

Tags: #J.D are you kidding me!? #Linguistic perfection #this is how you describe someone #Franny Glass #Franny and Zooey #Buddy Glass #J.D. Salinger