California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.
S. E. HintonIt's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
S. E. HintonYou get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.
S. E. HintonThey used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.
S. E. HintonYour mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.
S. E. HintonThat's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.
S. E. HintonI am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
S. E. HintonI've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.
S. E. HintonYou know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
S. E. HintonMy boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.
S. E. HintonMaybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
S. E. HintonWhen I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
S. E. HintonI advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
S. E. HintonYou 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.
S. E. HintonI had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.
S. E. HintonI really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
S. E. HintonWe couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
S. E. HintonI used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers
S. E. Hinton... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.
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