Цитаты из книги «Изгои», страница 6

"I am a greaser," Sodapop chanted. "I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man, do I have fun!"

And they can't take anything away from them because they don't have anything in the first place. So they cut their hair.

Darry nuts when I do stuff like that, 'cause I'm supposed to be smart; I make good grades and I have high IQ and everything, but I don't use my head. Besides I like walking.

Они же были друзьями, думал я, они были друзьями, а теперь они друг друга ненавидят, а все из-за того, что одному пришлось зарабатывать на жизнь, а второй - родился в богатом квартале. Нельзя им друг друга ненавидеть...

Но я врал, и сам знал, что вру. Я себе всё время вру. И сам себе никогда не верю.

Этим их банда и отличалась от нашей - у них был главарь и действовали они организованно, мы же просто дружили, ну и друг друга держались, а так у нас каждый сам себе главарь. Может, потому мы их всегда и делали.

There just isn’t much you can say while you are waiting to get jumped.

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other...

That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.

I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.