“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.” — John Knowles Love Copy Share Image
Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence. — John Knowles Death Copy Share Image
“You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.” — John Knowles Finny 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
The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life. — John Knowles Happy 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
“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
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
“He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been… — John Knowles Jealous Copy Share Image
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. — John Knowles Accepting 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
“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
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
“Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely… — John Knowles Youth 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
Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered.… — John Knowles Eight 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
“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 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
“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
Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People… — John Knowles Forever Copy Share Image
“Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnisch and wax. Preserved along with it, like stale air… — John Knowles Absence Copy Share Image
“I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I… — John Knowles 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
“The first person who says anything unpleasant will get a swift kick in the ass. ” — John Knowles First person 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
