S.E. Hinton Quotes

I could fall in love with Dallas Winston," she said. "I hope I never see himagain, or I will.
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Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
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He sure put things into words good.
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It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...
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Maybe people are younger when they sleep.
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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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It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic.
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Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost
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We saw the same sunset.
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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.
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I´d rather have anybody´s hate than their pity
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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.
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...At least you got Soda. I ain't got nobody.' 'Shoot,' I said, startled out of my misery, 'you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whole gang.' 'It ain't the same as having your own folks care about you,' Johnny said simply. 'it just ain't the same.
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...At least you got Soda. I ain't got nobody." "Shoot," I said, startled out of my misery, "you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whole gang." "It ain't the same as having your own folks care about you," Johnny said simply. "it just ain't the same.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go.
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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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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 lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
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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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