“It was too late to tell Dally. Would he have listened? I doubted it. Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did. It was too much of a problem to be just a personal thing.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.”
― Sweet Thursday
― Sweet Thursday
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