“Let us pray". We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.” — John Knowles Let Pray 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
It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated… — John Knowles Break Copy Share Image
“In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into… — John Knowles Deep Copy Share Image
“So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all—plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change. Nothing endures,… — John Knowles Change 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
“I turned with an inward groan to look at him. Quackenbush wasn't going to let me just do the work for him… — John Knowles Arrogance Copy Share Image
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck. — John Knowles Faces Copy Share Image
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves. — John Knowles Accept Copy Share Image
“Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell… — John Knowles Adolescence Copy Share Image
“Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.” — John Knowles Fear Copy Share Image
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. — John Knowles History Copy Share Image
“...I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been… — John Knowles Dream Copy Share Image
Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed… — John Knowles Desire Copy Share Image
Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is… — John Knowles Born Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was… — John Knowles Best friend Copy Share Image
So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even… — John Knowles Changed Copy Share Image
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a… — John Knowles Anonymity Copy Share Image
You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long… — John Knowles Long 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
“...it also meant mornings of glory such as this one, in which the snow, white almost to blueness, lay like a soft… — John Knowles Flower 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
“Must like the rest of us on the surface, he had an underlying obliging and considerate strain which barred him from being… — john knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“Last night as your breathing settled into sleep what I heard was the half-forgotten sound, the velvet rush and hiss, the automatic… — John Knowles Last night Copy Share Image
“So the war swept over like a wave at the seashore, gathering power and size as i bore on us, overwhelming in… — John Knowles Time Copy Share Image
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you… — John Knowles Age Copy Share Image
“Everyone contributed to this legend except Phineas. At the outset, with the attempt on Hitler’s life, Finny had said, “If someone gave… — John Knowles Hitler Copy Share Image
