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"’Ponyboy, I asked the nurse to give you this book so you could finish it.’ It was Johnny’s handwriting. I went on reading, almost hearing Johnny’s quiet voice. ‘The doctor came in a while ago but I knew anyway. I keep getting tireder and tireder. Listen, I don’t mind dying now. It’s worth it. It’s worth saving those kids. Their lives are worth more than mine, they have more to live for. Some of their parents came by to thank me and I know it was worth it…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…You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world…Your buddy, Johnny.’…Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn’t be so quick to judge…And I decided I could tell people…"
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

posted by theoldman at 7:32 am (EST) on Oct 25, 2009