But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.
John KnowlesSo the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.
John KnowlesIt was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
John KnowlesYoung people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.
John KnowlesIt was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.
John Knowles