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.

Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.

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.

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

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

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.