Atelfer

“You didn’t shame anybody into anything.” “Oh yes I did. I’m good for you that way. You have a tendency to back away from things otherwise.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“...because when you come right down to it the school is involved in everything that happens in the war, its all the same war and the same world...”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“...considered authority, the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction...”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“...by means of certain small scars rising along its trunk, and by a limb extending over the river, and another thinner limb growing near it. This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age...the old giants have become piggies while you were looking the other way.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace