Chapter 12

Quote 1:"New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed. I kept wishing I could g home and shoot the bull for a while with old Phoebe" (Ch.12)  (T) 
Quote 2:"I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding. At this other tiny table, right to my left, practically on top of me, there was this funny-looking guy and this funny-looking girl."(ch.12) (C)

Holden and Phoebe have a very close relationship. He goes out and buys her a record, when he finally gets to see her he kisses her, and not many siblings kiss. He talks about how no one is like Phoebe, and how she is not a phony. Phoebe will be very straight with you and she is not a slob like Ackley or like Stradlater. He tells us that Phoebe is a very smart girl, as a matter of fact he says he is the only person in the family who wasn't blessed with book smarts. He seems to have a very close bond with all of his siblings, and mainly Phoebe I think because she doesn't hold anything back, and it seems to be like the only real friend he has. He knows he can trust her with anything and he sees her so special in his eyes, and this is an ongoing theme we see throughout the book. D.B is brought up more so in this chapter, when Holden runs into a girl he used to run around with when he was younger. They struck up a conversation about D.B, and Holden told her that he was in Hollywood now as a writer. She definitely wanted Holden to tell D.B, but she was with another guy. Whether Holden will or not is the question.