The Outsiders on The Carpetbaggers: “I’d read everything in the house about fifty million times, even Darry’s copy of The Carpetbaggers, though he’d told me I wasn’t old enough to read it.”
The Outsiders on Nothing Gold Can Stay: “"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold... So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay." Johnny was staring at me. "Where'd you learn that?" ... "Robert Frost wrote it."”
The Outsiders on Great Expectations: “I had to read Great Expectations for English, and that kid Pip, he reminded me of us—the way he felt marked lousy because he wasn't a gentleman or anything, and the way that girl kept looking down on him.”