John Knowles Separate Quotations

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

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.

So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse