A Separate Peace - Important Quotes
"Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence." Page 6
"I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying your best friend a little." Page 18
"If I had fallen awkwardly enough, I could have been killed. Finny had practically saved my life." Page 24
"To keep silent about this amazing happening deepened the shock for me. It made Finny seem too unusual for – not friendship, but too unusual for rivalry” Page 37
"I should have told him then that he was my best friend also and rounded off what he had said. I started to; I nearly did. But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth." PAge 40
"I had no idea why this game me such immense relief, but it seemed, standing there in Finny's triumphant shirt, that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again." Page 54
"'You see! Kill me! Now you know what it is! I did it because I felt like that! Now you know yourself!'" Page 62
"I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas." Page 77
"He was nodding his head, his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. 'I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you.'" Page 183
“I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family's strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a felling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case” Page 186
"I was ready for the war, now that I no longer had any hatred to contribute to it. My fury was gone, I felt it gone, dried up at the source, withered and lifeless. Phineas had
"I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying your best friend a little." Page 18
"If I had fallen awkwardly enough, I could have been killed. Finny had practically saved my life." Page 24
"To keep silent about this amazing happening deepened the shock for me. It made Finny seem too unusual for – not friendship, but too unusual for rivalry” Page 37
"I should have told him then that he was my best friend also and rounded off what he had said. I started to; I nearly did. But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth." PAge 40
"I had no idea why this game me such immense relief, but it seemed, standing there in Finny's triumphant shirt, that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again." Page 54
"'You see! Kill me! Now you know what it is! I did it because I felt like that! Now you know yourself!'" Page 62
"I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas." Page 77
"He was nodding his head, his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. 'I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you.'" Page 183
“I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family's strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a felling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case” Page 186
"I was ready for the war, now that I no longer had any hatred to contribute to it. My fury was gone, I felt it gone, dried up at the source, withered and lifeless. Phineas had