“Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish
“I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I did...I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish
“Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish
“California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish
“Yeah," I said. "And I'm gonna look just like him."
The black cat paused and looked me over.
"No you ain't baby. That cat is a prince, man. He is royalty in exile. You ain't never gonna look like that.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish
“He had strange eyes-they make me think of a two-way mirror. Like you could feel somebody on the other side watching you, but the only reflections you saw was your own.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish
“I could never understand people being scared of things they didn't know nothing about.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish
“If you're going to lead people, you have to have somewhere to go.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish
S.E. Hinton
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“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that only once the whole globe had been subjected to her rule could there be a universal peace.”
― Tom Holland, quote from Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
“His presence in my life is like the lighthouse in my stormy waters to a ship lost at sea.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Infinite Possibilities
“It turned out that it was difficult to stay cross with a man when you could see his nipples.”
― FayJay, quote from The Student Prince
“Hi Wankershim! Are you going to doodie? WHOAAAA!”
― quote from Best of Catbug: My Name is Catbug, What's Yours?
“If you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away. Sophie”
― Bella Andre, quote from I Only Have Eyes for You
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