S.E. Hinton

“Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost”

“Maybe people are younger when they sleep.”

“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've got to have somewhere to go.”

“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.”

“We saw the same sunset.”

“Nothing sparkly can stay.”

“I´d rather have anybody´s hate than their pity”

“It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic.”

“...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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.”

“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.”

“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.”