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.

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

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

...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.

Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.