“I looked at Two-Bit admiringly. He sure put things into words good. Maybe he was still a junior at eighteen and half, and maybe his sideburns were too long, and maybe he did get boozed up too much, but he sure understood things.” (Hinton, 30)

“Dally… had no specific thing to hate. No rival gang. Only Socs. And you can’t win against them no matter how hard you try, because they’ve got all the breaks and even whipping them isn’t going to change that fact.” (Hinton, 11)

“Darry didn’t deserve to work like an old man when he was only twenty.” (Hinton, 16)

“You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you’re in a gang, you stick up for the members.” (Hinton, 26)

“‘Hey, grease,’ one said in an over-friendly voice. ‘We’re gonna do you a favor, greaser. We’re gonna cut all that long greasy hair off.’ … One of them laughed, then cussed me out in a low voice… ‘Need a haircut, greaser?’ The medium sized blond pulled a knife out of his back pocket and flipped the blade open.” (Hinton, 5)

“‘He’s a dropout,’ I said roughly. ‘Dropout’ made me think of some poor dumb-looking hoodlum wandering the streets breaking out streetlights- it didn’t fit my happy-go-lucky brother at all.” (Hinton, 23)

“It wasn’t just that they had beaten him half to death- he could take that. The had scared him. They had threatened him with everything under the sun.” (Hinton, 33)

“You could hear her yelling at him [Johnny] clear down at our house. I think he hated that worse than getting whipped. He would have run away a million times if we hadn’t been there” (Hinton, 12)

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