S. E. Hinton Short Quotes

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

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

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

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Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

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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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It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

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I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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