Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.

...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.

Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.

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

The difference is that was then, this is now.

the person in this picture is really me.