Paliwan Starr

“I realized that all this explained him, and it wasn't the words he said which angered me. It was only that he was so ignorant, that he knew nothing of the gypsy summer, nothing of the loss I was fighting to endure, of skylarks and splashes and petal-bearing breezes, he had not seen Leper's snails or the Charter of the Super Suicide Society; he shared nothing, knew nothing, felt nothing as Phineas had done.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“there was a breath of widening life in the morning air--something hard to describe--”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a deep and clear voice as possible the words he said every time he left a soldiers presence. 'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon'.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas