" I lie to myself all the time, but I never believe me."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too."
— S.E. Hinton

"If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky."
— S.E. Hinton

"’Ponyboy, I asked the nurse to give you this book so you could finish it.’ It was Johnny’s handwriting. I went on reading, almost hearing Johnny’s quiet voice. ‘The doctor came in a while ago but I knew anyway. I keep getting tireder and tireder. Listen, I don’t mind dying now. It’s worth it. It’s worth saving those kids. Their lives are worth more than mine, they have more to live for. Some of their parents came by to thank me and I know it was worth it…I’ve been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you’re gold when you’re a kid, like green. When you’re a kid, everything’s new, dawn. It’s just when you get used to everything that it’s day…You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world…Your buddy, Johnny.’…Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn’t be so quick to judge…And I decided I could tell people…"
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you..."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"The difference is that was then, this is now."
— S.E. Hinton (That Was Then, This Is Now)

"nothing can wear you out like caring about people"
— S.E. Hinton (That Was Then, This Is Now)

"It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"natures first green is gold,
her hardest hue to hold.
her earlys leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"Dally was so real he scared me."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

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

"Yeah, but still, don't you kinda miss that one-for-all, all-for-one routine? It's kinda sad, really, when you get to where you don't need a gang-- I mean, like you did before."

"It's kind of a good thing too," I said, "when you know your own personality so you don't need the one the gang makes for you."

"Yeah," Mark sighed, "but there's a difference.I wonder what the difference is?"

"The difference is," I said evenly, "That was then, and this is now."
— S.E. Hinton (That Was Then, This Is Now)

"Stay gold, Pony Boy"
— S.E. Hinton

"Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
-Motorcycle Boy"
— S.E. Hinton (Rumble Fish)

"why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy
He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop"
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"the person in this picture is really me."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"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."
— S.E. Hinton (That Was Then, This Is Now)

"let's do it for Johnny"
— S.E. Hinton

"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"
— S.E. Hinton

""I lie to my self all the time but i never believe me""
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"Things are rough all over."
— S.E. Hinton

"They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . ."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"'Okay greasers,you've had it.'
-Two Bit Mathews,from The Outsiders."
— S.E. Hinton

""I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!"
-Sodapop Curtis
The Outsiders"
— S.E. Hinton

"Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you?
No.
Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it."
— S.E. Hinton (Tex)

"We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood."
— S.E. Hinton (That Was Then, This Is Now)

""You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you...""
— S.E. Hinton

""Man, I didnt know anythibg like that was going to happen! Honest, Tex he was on something. Holy cow! I really kid, I been doing this stuff for a year now and I never saw nobody pull a gun before! God Almighty! What if he hadnt missed!" -Lem
"He didnt" -Tex
"What?" -Lem
"I said he didnt miss. He shot me nd it hurts like hell." -Tex"
— S.E. Hinton (Tex)

"Stay Gold."
— S.E. Hinton

"loveyou"
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

""Things are rough all over.""
— S.E. Hinton

"" My brother and i had alot in common i want to be like him when i grow up""
— S.E. Hinton (Rumble Fish)

"" Remember pony boy nothing gold can stay""
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"stay gold beacause it reminds me of my grandpa he is a great guy and he passed away in 2001 but he tought me alot so that why thats me fav. quote."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

""Nothing gold can stay""
— S.E. Hinton