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“Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.”

John Knowles book A Separate Peace

Gene, on the war activities around Devon.
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 89

Men , Children , World

“Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.”

John Knowles book A Separate Peace

Gene
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 14

Love , Death , Tree

“He possessed an extra vigor, a heightened confidence in himself, a serene capacity for affection which saved him. Nothing as he was growing up at home, nothing at Devon, nothing even about the war had broken his harmonious and natural unity. So at last I had.”

John Knowles book A Separate Peace

Gene, on Finny's strength.
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 194-195

War , Home , Confidence , Nature