If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
S. E. HintonWhat's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!
S. E. HintonAll of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.
S. E. HintonI advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
S. E. HintonThat'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.
S. E. Hinton