“I think we reminded them of what peace was like, we boys of sixteen. We were registered with no draft board, we… — John Knowles A-separate-peace 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
“I did not know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.” — John Knowles 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
“The winter loves me', he retorted, and then, disliking the whimsical sound of that, added, 'I mean as much as you can… — John Knowles Winter Copy Share Image
But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I… — John Knowles Findings Copy Share Image
“I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide… — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I… — 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
“Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half.” — John Knowles 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
“Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.” — John Knowles Beauty Copy Share Image
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. — John Knowles Education 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
“I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student… — John Knowles Fifteen years Copy Share Image
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful… — John Knowles Achieve 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 Active Copy Share Image
“As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of… — john knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“I thought the issue was settled until at the end he said, 'Listen, pal, if I can't play sports, you're going to… — John Knowles Connection Copy Share Image
The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life. — John Knowles Life 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
“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
“...the sun was blazing all around them and the rays of sun were shooting past them, millions of rays shooting past them… — John Knowles Sun Copy Share Image
Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in… — John Knowles My generation Copy Share Image
“You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.” — John Knowles Finny Copy Share Image
