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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.
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I 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.
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I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
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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.
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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
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They shouldn't hate each other... I don't hate the Socs any more... they shouldn't hate...
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Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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S. E. Hinton
Born:
July 22, 1948
(age 75)
Bio:
Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during high school.
Known for:
The Outsiders (1967)
That Was Then, This Is Now (1971)
Rumble Fish (1970)
Taming the Star Runner (1988)
The Puppy Sister (1995)
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