why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop

I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.

...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.