...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.

He sure put things into words good.

They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .