Outsiders quotes Flashcards
“greasers cant walk alone …
… too much or they’ll get jumped, or someone will come by and scream “greaser!” at them…
johnny never walked by himself after that…
… and johnny … now carried in his back pocket a six inch switchblade and he’d use it too if he ever got jumped again “
” things…
… are rough all over”
it wasn’t fair for the
socs to have everything. we were as good as they were; it wasn’t our fault that we were greasers
that was [darrys]
silent fear then-of losing another person that he had loved.
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 defence
they shouldn’t hate
each other… i don’t hate the socs anymore… they shouldn’t hate…
stay
gold, ponyboy. stay gold…
we’re all we
have left. we ought to be able to stick together against everything. if we don’t have each other, we don’t have anything
someone should tell their
side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil that he wore
