I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of a….

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

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man..

He sure put things into words good..

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him..

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth..

Nothing sparkly can stay..

nothing can wear you out like caring about people.

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted..

Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane..

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense..

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 yo….

Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs..

I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you..

It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tel….

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes fr….

Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on John….

Okay greasers,you've had it..

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday..

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 h….