S. E. Hinton Quote

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.


The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish (ed. 1995)


I guess I just couldn't see standing there — alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being — one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me....

I guess I just couldn't see standing there — alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being — one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me....

I guess I just couldn't see standing there — alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being — one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me....

I guess I just couldn't see standing there — alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being — one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me....