💬 Quotes

"Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds."

"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold."

"It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset."

"You take up a good space and you don't even know it. You don't have to be a tough guy all the time."

"I don't care about Darry. But I was lying and I knew it. I lie to myself all the time. But never believe me."

"Things are rough all over."

"If we don't have each other, we don't have anything. If you have the worlds made up of Greasers and Socs, one way or the other you're going to get hurt."

"Le secret d'une bonne vieillesse n'est rien d'autre qu'un pacte honnête avec la solitude."

"Le temps ne passe pas, il tourne en rond."

"Il n'est rien au monde qui soit plus difficile que l'amour."

"C'est comme si le temps avait fait marche arrière et que nous nous retrouvions au commencement."

"Il ne savait pas que la nostalgie, comme toute autre chose, était une illusion qui n'a pas de passé."

"Les lignées condamnées à cent ans de solitude n'avaient pas une seconde chance sur terre."

"Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always."

"Marriage can wait, education cannot."

"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."

"There are many hardships in this life, but they can be endured. Like the ones we have now, the ones we have been through. But they are not the end."

"She was leaving behind the only life she had known, and though it had been a life of sorrow, it was still her life."

"A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It doesn’t bleed. It doesn’t stretch to make room for you."

"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago."