Quotes by : John Knowles

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

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....

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....

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....

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