It’s okay. We aren’t in the same class. Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.
If you’re going to lead people, you’ve got to have somewhere to go.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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 else he had to be.
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.
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.
Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.–Johnny quoting Robert Frost
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.
It goes so fast, he thought, they don’t tell you that, how fast it goes…
Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
I could fall in love with Dallas Winston,” she said. “I hope I never see himagain, or I will.