* "Stay gold, Ponyboy."
* "I'm no good in a fight."
* "I don't want to be a hood anymore. I don't want to be nothing."
* "I used to tell myself that I liked things the way they were, but I don't. I mean, I know that we're poor and that we don't have a lot of things, but I don't care about that. I just want to be happy."
* "I've been thinking a lot about what Dally said about killing himself. And I'm scared. I don't want to die."
* "I'm not going to let anyone hurt you, Johnnycake."