I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

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

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

The difference is that was then, this is now.

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

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.