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Nothing sparkly can stay.

We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.

They weren't looking for a fight, they were looking to fit in.

Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.

--Johnny quoting Robert Frost

We saw the same sunset.

You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.

He sure put things into words good.

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

Okay greasers,you've had it.

Greaser ... greaser ... greaser ... " Steve singsonged. "O victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood!

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

You oughta see Kathy's brother. Now there's a hood. He's so greasy he glides when he walks. He goes to the barber for an oil change, not a haircut.

Oh, glory," I said with a groan, "this is all I need to top off a perfect night" I took one last drag on my weed and ground the stub under my heel

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers

You read a lot, don't you, Ponyboy?"
I was startled. "Yeah, why?"
"I could just tell. I'll bet you watch sunsets, too.

You can't say, 'This is just a stage' when its important to people what they're feeling. Maybe he'll outgrow it someday but right now it's important.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

let's do it for Johnny

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

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.

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home ...

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.

I could never understand people being scared of things they didn't know nothing about.

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ... No, another social outcast!

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

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

It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

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

Some people go, some people stay. I'm staying.

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

I'm not saying that either Socs or greasers are better; that's just the way things are.

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes ...

Juvenile delinquent, you're no good! Darry shouted.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

You dig ok Pony Boy

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

If you want to see something funny, it's a tough hood sticking his tongue out at his big brother.

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

We gotta do it for Johnny...Let's do it for Johnny!

Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

That's why we're separated,'I said. 'It's not money, it's feeling- you don't feel anything, and we feel too violently.

I'm what you might call a Pepsi addict.

Well, you're real brave, real stupid, or real lucky.

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

I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

We're almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

Things are rough all over.

The difference is that was then, this is now.

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

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.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.

But if you used to walls all that air can give you the creeps

I'm a good judge of my own work.

But we can't be everything we read.

If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

Nothing can wear you out like caring about people

Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.

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.

I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.

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

You are in love with Sandy?" What's it like?"
"Hhhmmm." He sighed happily. "It's real nice.

If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

I always try to write the best I can.

I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.

My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.

Dally was so real he scared me.

Stay gold Ponyboy,

I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . . The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died. You read about people looking

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

But I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

the person in this picture is really me.

Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold...

- Johnny to Ponyboy

In the daytime you aren't afraid of anything.

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

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you ...

Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

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

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.