214 Quotes by S. E. Hinton

He had strange eyes-they make me think of a two-way mirror. Like you could feel somebody on the other side watching you, but the only reflections you saw was your own.

You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don’t get used to the idea that he’s dead just overnight.

Two-Bit was the only one wearing a jacket; he had a couple of cans of beer stuffed in it. He always gets high before a rumble. Before anything else, too, come to think of it. I shook my head. I’d hate to see the day when I had to get my nerve from a can.

Okay greasers, you’ve had it.

Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. “Tuff enough,” he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.

I can lie so easily that it spooks me sometimes – Soda says it comes form reading so much. But then, Two-Bit lias all the time too, and he never opens a book.

There isn’t any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

Stay gold Pony Boy.

Don’t you know a rumble ain’t a rumble unless I’m in it?