Emilee

“You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnisch and wax. Preserved along with it, like stale air in an unopened room, was the well known fear which had surrounded and filled those days, so much of it that I hadn't even known it was there. Because, unfamiliar with the abscence of fear and what that was like, I had not been able to identify it's presence.
Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.
I felt fear's echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompanient and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace