Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God. — John Knowles Copy Share Image
So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all. — John Knowles Change Copy Share Image
The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life. — John Knowles 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
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. — 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 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
But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth. — John Knowles 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
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
“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
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw… — John Knowles 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
“From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the… — John Knowles 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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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 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 Copy Share Image
“Like all old, good schools, Devon did not stand isolated behind walls and gates but emerged naturally from the town which had… — John Knowles Education 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
“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
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
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
“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
“Let us pray". We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.” — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. — John Knowles Confusion 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 Copy Share Image
“What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.” — John Knowles A-separate-peace 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 Copy Share Image
As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people… — John Knowles 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
It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something… — John Knowles Human heart Copy Share Image
I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply… — John Knowles Life Copy Share Image
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing… — John Knowles Children 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
