The Outsiders Quotes

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

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

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

Things are rough all over.

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. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.

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

I could fall in love with Dallas Winston," she said. "I hope I never see himagain, or I will.

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

That was his silent fear then—of losing another person he loved. I remembered how close he and Dad had been, and I wondered how I could ever have thought him hard and unfeeling. I listened to his heart pounding through his T-shirt and knew everything was going to be okay now. I had taken the long way around, but I was finally home. To stay.

He told me he loved her, but I guess she didn't love him like he thought she did, because it wasn't him." (12.39)