I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

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

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

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

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.