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.

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

You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.