214 Quotes by S. E. Hinton

He meant you are gold when you’re a kid, like green. When you’re a kid everything is new, dawn. It’s just. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold.

Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it’s the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

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 didn’t think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I’m going crazy.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren’t looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.

The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn’t present in Dally.

Somos todo lo que nos queda. Tenemos que ser capaces de seguir unidos, pase lo que pase. Si no nos tenemos los unos a los otros, no tenemos nada.