Quotes From The Book

"I could never understand people being scared of things they didn't know nothing about."

"I love fights. I love how I feel before a fight, kind of high, like I can do anything."

"I sucked in my gut and wrapped the chain around his neck, jerking him to the ground. All I wanted to do was get the knife away from him. I'd kill him later."

"Where ya been?" I asked the Motorcycle Boy. He'd been gone for two weeks. He had stolen a cycle and left. Everyone called him the Motorcycle Boy because he was crazy about motorcycles. It was like a title or something. I was probably one of the few people on the block who knew what his real name was. He had this bad habit of borrowing cycles and going for a ride without telling the owner."

"I was so glad the Motorcycle Boy came home. He was the coolest person in the world. Even if he hadn't been my brother, he would have been the coolest person in the whole world. And I was going to be just like him."

Copyright S.E Hinton.