S.E. Hinton

Quotes

• “He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville ...”
• “Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep...”
• “Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the s...”
• “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 ...”
• “I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.”
• “Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.”
• “It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...”
• “If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go.”
• “Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost”
• “It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic.”
• “I´d rather have anybody´s hate than their pity”
• “Maybe people are younger when they sleep.”
• “He sure put things into words good.”
• “Nothing sparkly can stay.”
• “We saw the same sunset.”