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