Jay Smith

“He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.”
― 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

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

“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love."

I didn't think that this was true, my seventeen years of experience had shown this to be much more false than true, but it was like every other thought and belief of Finny's: it should have been true.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace