Quotes by : John Knowles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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