214 Quotes by S. E. Hinton

Things are rough all over.

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.

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 grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

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 up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy