That Was Then, This Is Now Quotes

“Nothing can wear you out like caring about people.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“The difference is that was then, this is now.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“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

“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 can't say, 'This is just a stage' when its important to people what they're feeling. Maybe he'll outgrow it someday but right now it's important.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“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, That Was Then, This Is Now

“It's funny how you don't think about people until after they're dead. Or gone.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“The difference is,” I said evenly, “that was then, and this is now.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This is Now

“You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love best in the world.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This is Now

“Like a friend once said to me, that was then, this is now.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“It's pretty lousy to have the two people you care about most hate each other.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“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, That Was Then, This is Now

“Life had seemed so simple once, now it suddenly seemed so complicated. I could remember a time when my only worry had been paying Charlie the three bucks I owed him.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“Hey, flower child, turn around.” They were taunting him, but M&M just kept right on moving. “It’s Shepard,” Mark whispered to me. We were waiting at the end of the alley for them to come by. They didn’t. They must have had M&M up against the wall. We could hear them.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This is Now

“It’s just as well,” Charlie said. “You guys are going to get in real bad trouble one of these days. Some guy’s going to get hacked off when he finds out what you’re doin’, and you’re gonna get a pool stick rammed down your throats.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This is Now

“Curly, why don’t you leave me alone?” M&M sounded very patient.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This is Now