I´d rather have anybody´s hate than their pity

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

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

Nothing sparkly can stay.

Asleep, 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.

He sure put things into words good.

I 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.

Greaser ' 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.

We saw the same sunset.

Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost

Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone who got a radio up and running just sat around waiting for everyone else to transmit a message?

She was a drug and he was an addict, hooked on her from the second he'd met her.

You won't be a wiser man if you always keep away from bad people or poor ones.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...

I am life, I am strength, I am woman.

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

Never put anyone out of your heart.

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.