Quotes

“Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.”
A Separate Peace
“Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.”
A Separate Peace
“It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.”
A Separate Peace
“All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.”
A Separate Peace

Books by John Knowles in order

Books by John Knowles in the order they were published, from A Seperate Peace (1959) to A Separate Peace With Connections (1999).

Authors readers of John Knowles often like, from our AI-written notes

J. D. SalingerAlso wrote a first-person novel about a young narrator's disillusionment at an American prep school, The Catcher in the Rye.
William GoldingExplores boys isolated from adult society and the darker side of group behaviour, in Lord of the Flies.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWrites about privilege, rivalry and the gap between surface and inner life among young, wealthy Americans, in The Great Gatsby.
Robert CormierWrites about adolescents facing institutional pressure and moral choices, in The Chocolate War.
Richard YatesWrites about mid-century American lives with a clear eye for self-deception and the costs of disappointment, in Revolutionary Road.
Ernest HemingwayWrote about young men shaped by war and the difficulty of speaking about what they went through, in A Farewell to Arms.