Dally was so real he scared me.

California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.

But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?

That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.

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

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.