25 quotes found
“We saw the same sunset.”
“Nothing sparkly can stay.”
“He sure put things into words good.”
“Maybe people are younger when they sleep.”
“Id rather have anybodys hate than their pity”
“I´d rather have anybody´s hate than their pity”
“It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
“I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.”
“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...”
“If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go.”
“He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere ...”
“...At least you got Soda. I ain't got nobody.' 'Shoot,' I said, startled out of my misery, 'you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you go...”
“...At least you got Soda. I ain't got nobody." "Shoot," I said, startled out of my misery, "you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you go...”
“Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual.”
“It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...”
“Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost”
“It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic.”
“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.”
“Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.”
