Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.

S. E. Hinton

Categorized in : Mother Brother Crazy

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

S. E. Hinton

sunset different two

nothing can wear you out like caring about people

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caring people

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

S. E. Hinton

outsiders grew-up fighting

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

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real-friends good-friend friendship

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

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truth believe lying

You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

S. E. Hinton

brother new-york together

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

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want world thinking

Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.

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staying

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

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hell mind want

It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.

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sunset different two

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

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advise want writing

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

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age wish boys

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

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sunset east real

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

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movie home two

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

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answers wish kids

You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.

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rumble jazz knows

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

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tell-me-the-truth wanted

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!

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cities fun men

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.

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pride real fun

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

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smart