S.e. hinton writing style

“You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people.

I guess that's why I like to read.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next.

It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs.

It was a normal childhood.”
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