Chapter Five

• Ponyboy: a paperback copy of Gone with the Wind!
• Johnny: he couldn't of been over seventeen or eighteen, and I killed him. How'd you like to live with that?
• Johnny, about the Southern gentlemen in Gone with the Wind: they remind me of Dally (riding into sure death because they were gallant)
• Johnny's hero-worship for Dally Winston
• Nothing gold can stay
• If that old church ever caught fire there'd be no stopping it
• Dally: we got us a spy ... Cherry what's-her-name