tex
taken from the 1979 s.e. hinton book.
why canât you just tell a nice lie once in a while?
okay, i told you something, now you tell me something.
youâre running a little bit of a fever.
itâs not a rock, itâs a bandage. and donât move around, your tubesâll come loose.
come on, itâs okay, you can wake up.
there are people who go places, and people who stay.
have a hamburger. you can have a hamburger, canât you?
iâm not going to throw away a whole dollar.
you look wore out, ___. you better get some sleep.
this is the worst thing thatâll ever happen to me.
i find it real hard to live politely.
they wonât let me stay with you if you keep talking. youâre supposed to rest.Â
i thought i was supposed to be the stubborn one in this family.
maybe sometimes things donât work out. i know iâll never figure out the âwhyâ of a lot of stuff thatâs happened.
iâve been bashed up pretty good, ___, but iâm going to make it.
it was the first time i realized hurting somebody could feel really good.
you sure know how to cheer people up.
love ought to be a real simple thing.
well, thatâs as close to being a ghost as i want to get.
isnât this a little extreme?
youâre almost looking human again.
iâd like to make somebody sorry.
oh, shit. this is great, this is just great.
___ doesnât have the sense god gave a goat.
the doctors say youâre going to be okay. thatâs not what they were telling us when we got to the emergency room the other night.
maybe we can go to a movie.
you donât have people depending on you.
well, you look pretty messed up right now. what happened?
thatâs all youâre going to get, so donât ask for any more.
well, itâs a good home.
come on, kid, hang in there, weâll go to the hospital, okay?
in the daytime you arenât afraid of anything.
go ahead, ___. dump me! everybody else has and i donât know why you should be any different!
anyhow, itâs a waste of money.
iâve been going all my life, cowboy.
i think weâre going to get to see a riot.
___, all my life i wanted somebody who knew more than i did to tell me the truth. i really wanted that. i had to learn it all the hard way. iâm just giving you a present i always wanted.
but i donât think love solves anything.