But I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
Happy-go-lucky
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 g...
That'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...
You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too. Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the thi...
Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.
That's why we're separated, I said. It's not money, it's feeling--you don't feel anything and we feel too violently.
Okay greasers, you've had it.
Oh, glory, I said with a groan, this is all I need to top off a perfect night I took one last drag on my weed and ground the stub under my heel
Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No.Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed u...
Johnny died.
It would be a miracle if Dally loved anything. The fight for self-preservation had hardened him beyond caring.
In our neighborhood it’s rare to find a kid who doesn’t drink once in a while. But Soda never touches a drop—he doesn’t need to. He gets drunk on just plain living.
I'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 everyth...
I wondered for a long time how to start that theme, how to start writingabout something that was important to me. And I finally began like this: When I steppedout into the bright sunlight from the dar...
I 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 wa...
But it still hurt anyway. You know a guy a long time, and I mean really know him, you don’t get used to the idea that he’s dead just overnight. Johnny was something more than a buddy to all of us. I g...
No deberíamos de estar separados después de haber trabajado tanto para permanecer juntos.
You oughta see Kathy's brother. Now there's a hood. He's so greasy he glides when he walks. He goes to the barber for an oil change, not a haircut.