–Ya sé -dijo Two-Bit con una de sus sonrisas de buen humor-, cuando nos toca la vez a nosotros siempre tenemos las peores cartas, pero así son las cosas. Qué le vas a hacer. Ajo y agua.

Me hizo gracia que la puesta del sol que ella pudiera ver desde su patio y la que yo veía desde las escaleras de atrás fuera la misma. Quizá los distintos mundos en que vivíamos no fueran tan distintos. Veíamos los mismos atardeceres.

Mason is ambidextrous. That means that he can use either his right or left hand. For some reason, when I was little, I thought that meant he was part water lizard. Don't ask why.

I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.

Darry took a step toward me, but I backed away. “Don't touch me,” I said. My heart was pounding in slow thumps, throbbing at the side of my head, and I wondered if everyone else could hear it. Maybe that's why they're all looking at me, I thought, they can hear my heart beating...

It's not just money. Part of it is, but not all. You greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophistocated- cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is for real with us. You know sometimes I'll catch myself talking to a girl-friend, and realise i don't mean half of what I'm saying. I don't really think a beer blast on the river bottom is supercool, but I'll rave about one to a girl-friend just to be saying something.

That's why we're separated,'I said. 'It's not money, it's feeling- you don't feel anything, and we feel too violently.

Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

Johnny was the only thing Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone.