John Knowles Quotes

Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it...

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

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

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines agai...

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understa...

Why talk about something you can't do anything about?

Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with er...

My misery was too deep to speak any more. I scanned the page; I was having trouble breathing, as tho...

Never say you are five feet nine whenyou are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encount...

Phineas didn't really dislike West Point in particular or authority in general, but just considered ...

I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a...

In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the De...

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I p...

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people ag...