Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.

I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

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

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.