Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves. — John Knowles Accept Copy Share Image
“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.” — John Knowles Love Copy Share Image
“Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half.” — John Knowles Feet Copy Share Image
“You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.” — John Knowles Finny Copy Share Image
Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence. — John Knowles Death Copy Share Image
The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life. — John Knowles Happy Copy Share Image
What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it… — John Knowles Love Copy Share Image
But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth. — John Knowles Deeper Copy Share Image
The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do… — John Knowles Alternative medicine Copy Share Image
“Finny always said what he happened to be thinking, and if this stunned people then he was surprised.” — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose… — John Knowles Desire Copy Share Image
“And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay.” — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of… — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“Phineas just walked serenely on, or rather flowed on, rolling forward in his white sneakers with such unthinking unity of movement that… — John Knowles Walked Copy Share Image
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw… — John Knowles Cost Copy Share Image
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to… — John Knowles Business Copy Share Image
“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it… — John Knowles Faith Copy Share Image
“Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are… — John Knowles Sixteen Copy Share Image
“From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the… — John Knowles First time Copy Share Image
Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that… — John Knowles Clarity Copy Share Image
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than… — John Knowles Attended Copy Share Image
“He was nodding his head, his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I… — John Knowles Nodding Head Copy Share Image
“The last words of Finny's usual nighttime monologue were, 'I hope you're having a pretty good time here. I know I kind… — John Knowles Best friend Copy Share Image
“Under the influence not I know of he hardest cider but of his own inner joy at life for a moment as… — John Knowles Choreography Copy Share Image
“The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary with age, enfeebled, dry. So more the things remain… — John Knowles Gene Copy Share Image
“I realized that all this explained him, and it wasn't the words he said which angered me. It was only that he… — John Knowles Ignorant Copy Share Image
“I didn't know why he had chosen me, why it was only to me that he could show the most humbling sides… — John Knowles Friendship Copy Share Image
“Now, in this winter of snow and crutches with Phineas, I begin to know that each morning reasserted the problems of the… — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“Someone knocked me down; I pushed Brinker over a small slope; someone was trying to tackle me from behind. Everywhere there was… — john knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was… — John Knowles Life Copy Share Image
Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God. — John Knowles Might Copy Share Image
So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all. — John Knowles Change Copy Share Image
“The first person who says anything unpleasant will get a swift kick in the ass. ” — John Knowles First person Copy Share Image
