Quotes by S. E. Hinton

S. E. Hinton

… Hey, I didn’t know you didn’t like baloney.” I went cold. “I don’t like it. I never liked it.” Soda just looked at me. “You used to eat it. That’s why you wouldn’t eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn’t like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat.” “I don’t like it,” I repeated.

Hey

Sick

Trying

…but I’ve never regretted it. You can’t regret experience.

Regret

…I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

Outsiders

Wanted

Would Be

…people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I’m sick of it because it doesn’t do any good. You can’t win…even if you whip us. You’ll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we’ll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn’t do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn’t prove a thing.

Fighting

Hurt

Winning

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

Tell Me The Truth

Wanted

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

People

Writing

Years

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

Influence

Stuff

Trying

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

People

Seventeen

But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya’ kill ’em with switchblades to, don’tcha?

Ems

People

California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she’s on top of the world, not knowing she’s dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

Beautiful

Believe

Kids

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Answers

Beautiful

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Book

Boys

Break

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Brother

Caring

Character

Cities

Class

Clean

Close Friends

Crazy

Cutting

Desperate

Differences

Different

Don't Hate

East

Ems

Enjoy

Eye

Fairs

Father

Feelings

Fighting

Friendship

Frogs

Fun

Gang

Glowing

Gold

Good Friend

Good Judges

Grew Up

Guy

Hair

Hate

Heart

Hell

Helping

Hero

Hey

Home

Hurt

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Quotes by S. E. Hinton

S. E. Hinton

…but I’ve never regretted it. You can’t regret experience.

…I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

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

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya’ kill ’em with switchblades to, don’tcha?

California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she’s on top of the world, not knowing she’s dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

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