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.
S. E. HintonIt 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.
S. E. HintonI didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.
S. E. HintonMace, 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.
S. E. Hinton