The Outsiders Quotes

"Stop it! Shut up about last night! I killed a kid last night. He couldn't of been over seventeen or eighteen, and I killed him. How'd you like to live with that?"

• Ponyboy

• Sodapop

• Johnny

• Dally

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Shoot, kid. Them boys at the station know me by now. I get hauled in for everything that happens in our turf. While I was there I kinda let it slip that y'all were headin' for Texas."

• Ponyboy

• Steve

• Two-Bit

• Dally

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Things are rough all over."

• Cherry

• Bob

• Randy

• Sodapop

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I can't stand fights... I can't stand them..."

• Johnny

• Ponyboy

• Darry

• Cherry

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Well, it's two in the morning, kiddo. Another hour and I would have had the police out after you. Where were you, Ponyboy? Where in the almighty universe were you?"

• Darry

• Sodapop

• Johnny

• Ponyboy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I'm sick of all this. Sick and tired. Bob was a good guy. He was the best buddy a guy ever had. I mean, he was a good fighter and tuff and everything, but he was a real person too."

• Johnny

• Ponyboy

• Cherry

• Randy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"You would have saved those kids if you had been there. You would have saved them the same as we did."

• Randy

• Dally

• Johnny

• Ponyboy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"He ain't a Soc. He's just a guy. He just wanted to talk."

• Two-Bit

• Steve

• Dally

• Ponyboy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"It's just... I can't stand to hear y'all fight. Sometimes... I just have to get out or... it's like I'm the middleman in a tug o' war and I'm being split in half."

• Ponyboy

• Johnny

• Darry

• Sodapop

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I'm scared stiff. I used to talk about killing myself... I don't want to die now. It ain't long enough. Sixteen years ain't long enough. I wouldn't mind if there wasn't so much stuff I ain't done yet and so many things I ain't seen. It's not fair."

• Ponyboy

• Johnny

• Dally

• Bob

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3