Quotes About Finny

#1. 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

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

Brenna Yovanoff

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

John Knowles

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Patrick used to be popular, until Sam bought him some good music.

Stephen Chbosky

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

Lauren Nowlin

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

John Knowles

#11. We run away from one thing into the other and destroy ourselves in the process, he said. We just simply go away until we have given up, so he said. Preference

Thomas Bernhard

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

Laura Nowlin

#13. Like a Persian carpet the weave of time pushed their lives into a pattern.

Meghna Pant

#14. The art of new, and perhaps the art of happiness, is not absolute victory for either new or old but balance between them. Birds do not defy gravity or let it bind them to the ground. They use it to fly.

Kevin Ashton

#15. Because we'd rather believe the fairy tale that says some people are just special. That way, we don't have any responsibility to act.

Jeff Goins

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

Laura Nowlin