The Outsiders

Book · 5 characters · 534 quotes · 1967

Quotes from The Outsiders

J
"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold."
Johnny Cade Wisdom
J
"I'm not bothering nobody."
Johnny Cade Peace
J
"We're all pretty bad."
Johnny Cade
P
"That was some trick, the way they looked at you."
Ponyboy Curtis
P
"Sodapop's movie-star handsome, the kind of handsome that's dangerous."
Ponyboy Curtis
P
"I wanted to be just like him, but I was a coward."
Ponyboy Curtis
P
"You can't fake whether you care or not."
Ponyboy Curtis
P
"It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her house and the one I saw couldn't be much different."
Ponyboy Curtis
J
"I could see the sunset, even though I was in a dark room."
Johnny Cade Beauty
P
"Being a greaser, when you're a greaser the first thing that counts is self-preservation."
Ponyboy Curtis
J
"I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid."
Johnny Cade
J
"I'm not going to show."
Johnny Cade Courage
S
"That was the only good thing that came out of that mess."
Sodapop Curtis Change
P
"I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me."
Ponyboy Curtis Truth
J
"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold."
Johnny Cade Hope
P
"The real things are the ones that matter."
Ponyboy Curtis Wisdom
J
"I wanted him to see me."
Johnny Cade
J
"We're used to being ignored."
Johnny Cade
P
"Sometimes I think it's the next morning that's bad."
Ponyboy Curtis
P
"I never knew what it was to be truly happy until then."
Ponyboy Curtis Happiness
P
"We were as close as brothers could be."
Ponyboy Curtis Friendship
J
"I was sick and tired of looking at them."
Johnny Cade Fear
P
"Maybe the Socs in the movie weren't like the Socs I knew."
Ponyboy Curtis
P
"All we cared about was staying alive."
Ponyboy Curtis
S
"I am my father's son, after all."
Sodapop Curtis Family
D
"You can't just trust anybody."
Darry Curtis Wisdom
J
"I'm not going to be ashamed of it."
Johnny Cade Courage
P
"I think I like it better when the lights are off."
Ponyboy Curtis Solitude
D
"We're all going to look back on this and laugh."
Dallas Winston Time
S
"I'm fifteen years old. I'm a Junior in high school. I drive a 1961 Corvette Sting Ray."
Sodapop Curtis