We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.

I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

Nothing sparkly can stay.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.