"...and maybe Dallas would see that there was some good in the world after all, and Mom would talk to him and make him grin in spite of himself. 'You've got quite a mom,' Dally used to say. 'She knows the score.' She could talk to Dallas and kept him from getting into a lot of trouble. My mother was golden and beautiful . . ." ?

"It wasn't fair for the Socs to have everything. We were as good as they were; it wasn't our fault we were greasers. I couldn't just take it or leave it, like Two-Bit, or ignore it and love life anyway, like Sodapop, or harden myself beyond caring, like Dally,or actually enjoy it, like Tim Shepard. I felt the tension growing inside of me and I knew something had to happen or I would explode. 'I can't take much more.' Johnny spoke my own feelings."

"'We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.'" ?

"It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!" ...This passage really got to me. ? #theoutsiders #youngadultnovel

"Nobody but Soda could really get me talking. 'Till I met Cherry Valance." ❤️ #theoutsiders

I love the way Cherry expresses herself. #theoutsiders #sehinton #ponyboy #youngadult #youngadultnovel

"'You in love with Sandy? What's it like?' 'Hhhmmm.' He sighed happily. 'It's real nice.' In a moment his breathing was light and regular. I turned my head to look at him and in the moonlight he looked like some Greek god come to earth. I wondered how he could stand being so handsome. Then I sighed." #theoutsiders #youngadultnovel

"She was a cute girl. She looked real good in yellow." I really liked this quote for some reason, I thought it was the cutest thing everrrrrr!! I'm a sucker for a bit of romance. #theoutsiders #youngadultnovel

"His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something, and then you could hear her yelling at him clear down at our house....He would have run away a million times if we hadn't been there. If it hadn't been for the gang, Johnny would never have known what love and affection are." ❤️

"In our neighborhood it's rare to find a kid who doesn't drink once in a while. But Soda never touches a drop--he doesn't need to. He gets drunk on just plain living. And he understands everybody." #theoutsiders #youngadultnovel

"I love Soda more than I've ever loved anyone, even Mom and Dad. He's always happy-go-lucky and grinning, while Darry's hard and firm and rarely grins at all. But then, Darry's gone through a lot in his twenty years, grown up too fast. Sodapop'll never grow up at all. I don't know which way's the best. I'll find out one of these days."

Just started reading this, I decided to read it because I saw the movie the other day and the movie was so amazing that it had me in tears. So, if the movie can evoke that type of emotion from me, then I knew the book would change my life!! I just finished chapter 1 and I love it so far. #theoutsiders #youngadultnovel

In the "Acknowledgements" section of the book. I am in love with this book. It has moved me and changed me. Thank you so much Jennifer Niven, thank you for existing and creating such a masterpiece. #youngadultnovel #allthebrightplaces

"I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me."

"Ultraviolet Remarkey-able" ?
#allthebrightplaces #youngadultnovel

"I love: the way her eyes spark when we're talking or when she's telling me something she wants me to know, the way she mouths the words to herself when she's reading and concentrating, the way she looks at me as if there's only me, as if she can see past the flesh and bone and bullshit right into the me that's there, the one I don't even see myself."

"She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can't help thinking she's more than that and she's got other elements going on that no one's ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else." #allthebrightplaces #youngadultnovel

"You are all the colors in one, at full brightness." ✨
#youngadultnovel #youngadult #allthebrightplaces #jenniferniven #violet #finch

"I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to."

"She is now walking several feet ahead, pretending I don't exist, but that's okay, I'm used to it, and what she doesn't know is that it doesn't faze me. People either see me or they don't. I wonder what it's like to walk down the street, safe and easy in your skin, and just blend right in. No one turning away, no one staring, no one waiting and expecting, wondering what stupid, crazy thing you'll do next."

"I'm just a girl pretending to be a hero."

"I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 -foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person."

Here is the current YA novel I am reading! I started yesterday and I am currently on page 88, and I love it so much so far. I can relate to the problems that the characters are facing and so it makes me feel like I'm not alone, & it's also humorous and brings light to the tough subject that is suicide. There is so much more I can say about this incredible book so far but I have a 451 word count so I'll end it here, will update once finished! 😊❤️