Atelfer

“They too seemed permanent and never-changing, an untouched unreachable world high in space...”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Yet here was a scattered grove of trees, none of them of any particular grandeur.”
― 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

“There isn’t any question that we are conforming in every possible way to everything that’s happening and everything that’s going to happen.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace