You are in love with Sandy? What's it like?Hhhmmm. He sighed happily. It's real nice.
Shoot. You got the whole gang. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whole gang.It ain't the same as having your own folks care about you, Johnny said simply. It just ain't the same.
She told me she changed that will, the step-father said.She once told me she married you because she loved you, Mike said. Guess she lied to us both.
Juvenile delinquent, you're no good! Darry shouted.
If you want to see something funny, it's a tough hood sticking his tongue out at his big brother.
The person in this picture is really me.
Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold... - Johnny to Ponyboy
Your back was in flames, that's why!I was surprised. It was? Golly, I didn't feel it! It don't hurt.
Things are rough all over.
But Dally, heaters kill people!Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
You don't just stop living because you lose someone. You don't quit!
Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
The difference is that was then, this is now.
I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.
I can lie so easily that it spooks me sometimes— Soda says it comes form reading so much. But then, Two-Bit lias all the time too, and he never opens a book.
Greaser...greaser...greaser... Steve singsonged. O victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood!
Dally didn't die a hero. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. Just like Tim Shepard and Curly Shepard and the Brumly boys and the other guys we knew would d...
All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.
You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.