A Separate Peace John Knowles Quotes

#1. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

John Knowles

#2. So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.

John Knowles

#3. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

John Knowles

#4. The scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

John Knowles

#5. I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart.

John Knowles

#6. Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. I didn't think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help.

John Knowles

#7. As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.

John Knowles

#8. Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

John Knowles