Finny's Quotes

#1. The Master was slipping from his official position momentarily, and it was just possible, if Phineas pressed hard enough, that there might be a flow of simple, unregulated friendliness between them, and such flows were one of Finny's reasons for living.

John Knowles

#2. You're not - " "Fast enough? Strong enough? Agile enough?" She did not necessarily disagree, but she wanted him to have faith she could do this. "Expendable," Sicarius said.

Lindsay Buroker

#3. Gene, on the desire to be Finny: I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

John Knowles

#4. Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.

John Knowles

#5. Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does.

Laura Nowlin

#6. It's always funny until someone gets hurt.
Then it's just hilarious.

Bill Hicks

#7. Within her presence, I had once been used
to feeling - trembling - wonder, dissolution;
but that was long ago. Still, though my soul,
now she was veiled, could not see her directly,
by way of hidden force that she could move,
I felt the mighty power of old love.

Dante Alighieri

#8. I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?

Jason Aldean

#9. My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.

Noel Coward

#10. We camped for the night in a hollow near a good-sized creek - one big enough for trout. Jamie and Ian waded into this with enthusiasm, harrying the finny denizens with whippy rods cut from black willow.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

Marva Collins

#12. Finny Boone is probably a sociopath. A big, lighter-stealing sociopath, but his eyes are steady and complicated.

Brenna Yovanoff

#13. Some People Deserve an Invisible
Flying Slap Right in The Face With A
Reason in its Caption.

Ahmed Ali Anjum

#14. Finny never tells anyone how he is feeling; you just have to know him well enough to understand when he is sad or scared. Today his expression does not tell me how he feels about me being over here. Either he couldn't care less, or he could be annoyed.

Laura Nowlin

#15. I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were ... miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

John Green

#16. Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.

Aldous Huxley

#17. Asperger's is not a disease. It's a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one. There is, however, a need for knowledge and adaptation on the part of Aspergian kids and their families and friends.

John Elder Robison

#18. And it's impossible to say and even harder to feel.

Laura Nowlin

#19. What the feckin' hell is PMS, I'd like to ken?"
"Petty Male Shit," she yelled.

Vonnie Davis

#20. If he had not been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled himself with boots at all; but then, if he had not been still a savage, he never would have dreamt of getting under the bed to put them on.

Herman Melville

#21. You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.

John Knowles

#22. Because I've had a taste and I'm not sharing. This isn't just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

Abbi Glines

#23. You can be an expert on anything if you just use logic.

Adam Carolla

#24. I am ten years old again, and I cannot imagine life without him.

Lauren Nowlin

#25. He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

Louisa May Alcott

#26. What makes you so special? Why should you get it and all the rest of us be in the dark?"
The momentum of the argument abruptly broke from his control. His face froze. "Because I've suffered," he burst out.

John Knowles