Race you, I challenged, leaping up. It was a real nice night for a race. The air was clear and cold and so clean it almost sparkled. The moon wasn't out but the stars lit up everything. It was quiet e...
Quiero decir, joder, Johnny, tienes a toda la pandilla.—No es lo mismo que tener a los tuyos cuidándote —dijo Johnny simplemente—. Es que no es lo mismo.
Okay greasers, you've had it.
Nothing sparkly can stay.
Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
If you're going to lead people, you have to have somewhere to go.
I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
But that day...well, Soda can't sit still long enough to enjoy a movie, much less a sermon. It wasn't long before he and Steve and Two-Bit were throwing paper wads at each other and clowning around, a...
Were running down his cheeks. I hadn’t seen him cry in years, not even when Mom and Dad had been killed. (I remembered the funeral. I had sobbed in spite of myself; Soda had broken down and bawled lik...
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 still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still a lot of good in the world.
Yeah, I said. And I'm gonna look just like him.The black cat paused and looked me over.No you ain't baby. That cat is a prince, man. He is royalty in exile. You ain't never gonna look like that.
There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose.
Ponyboy, listen, don't get tough. You're not like the rest of us and don't try to be...What was the matter with Two-Bit? I knew as well as he did that if you got tough you didn't get hurt. Get smart a...
Ponyboy, I asked the nurse to give you this book so you could finish it. The doctor came in a while ago but I knew anyway. I keep getting tireder and tireder. Listen, I don't mind dying now. It’s wort...
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can sta...
Me hizo gracia que la puesta del sol que ella pudiera ver desde su patio y la que yo veía desde las escaleras de atrás fuera la misma. Quizá los distintos mundos en que vivíamos no fueran tan distinto...
Man, I didnt know anything like that was going to happen! Honest, Tex, he was on something. Holy cow! I really kid, I been doing this stuff for a year now and I never saw nobody pull a gun before! God...
Johnny, you don't know what a few months in jail can do to you, man. You get mean in jail, I just don't wanna see that happen to you like it happened to me, man. Understand?-Dallas Winston