01UndatedIt's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
03UndatedI 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.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
04UndatedIf you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
06UndatedI have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
07UndatedHe'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.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
09Undated...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.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
10UndatedI 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.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
12UndatedGreaser ' 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.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
16UndatedAsleep, 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.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
18UndatedIt goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
20UndatedCan you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
21UndatedI could fall in love with Dallas Winston," she said. "I hope I never see himagain, or I will.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
22UndatedI just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
23UndatedAny writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.S.E. Hinton / quote ↗
