Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

Okay greasers,you've had it.

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

Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

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

nothing can wear you out like caring about people

You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.