I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

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

Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.

Okay greasers,you've had it.

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

The difference is that was then, this is now.