You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.

Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden

We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.