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"I could hear the specks of life that crawled beneath my clothing, the rotting of the great tree which rose from its three-cornered trunk above me. I could hear the darkness gathering against me and the silences that lay between the moving things." Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow (1957)

"...when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.” Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation (2014)

Ponyboy is the perfect mix of his big brothers, while Sodapop and Darry are the carbon copies of their parents.

Pony never realizes how much he looks like Darry (or Soda, really) he just knows he doesn't look too much like either of his parents, besides for the freckles that he got from his momma.

— Talking about Momma Curtis, I've always imagined Sodapop being almost exactly like her in every way necessary, from the gentle tone, to the way he looks. He used to spend so much time with his Mom to the point he remembers each poem she read and every recipe she'd cook.

Darry on the other hand had spent so much time with his pops to the point Baby Ponyboy would almost get confused on which Darrel was talking to him!! Though, unlike Mr. Curtis, Darry never got into trains or cars, he liked physical activity, but never engines and stains you'd never get rid of. Instead he took up sport, and occasionally, would join momma in the garden, while Sodapop and Steve would spend the day watching cars with papa.