S. E. Hinton

“That was the thing about the cycles: you could see them, you could see how they worked, you could see the results. But you were trapped inside them.”

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

“I am a writer, first and foremost. I've been a writer since I was 16. I am a writer. I'm not a 'young adult' writer. I'm a writer.”

“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking for a place to belong.”

“If you wanna be a writer, you have to be a reader.”

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.”

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

“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.”

“It seemed to me that someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then.”

“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.”

“Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.”

“Anything's possible in a book.”

“Things are rough all over.”

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”

“Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn.”