I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
S. E. HintonYou know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
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. 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. Hinton