Jay Smith

“Why talk about something you can't do anything about?”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Then for no reason at all, I felt magnificent. It was as though my body until that instant had simply been lazy as though the aches and exhaustion were all imagined, created from nothing in order to keep me from truly exerting myself. Now my body seemed at last to say, "Well, if you must have it, here!" and an accession of strength came flooding through me. Buoyed up, I forgot my usual feeling of routine self-pity when working out, I lost myself, oppressed mind along with aching body; all entanglements were shed, I broke into the clear.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace