Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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. HintonI don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
S. E. HintonYour 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.
S. E. Hinton