It 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.

why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop

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

I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year

They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .

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

Things are rough all over.