when your card declines at therapy so they make you rewatch dallas winston getting shot around as darry screams "dont shoot he's just a kid"
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SE Hinton did I do something to you because sometimes I look at your book and go hough like a previously neglected shelter dog.
Johnny was sixteen (16). He had so much he wanted to see, so much he wanted to do. His life was horrible, but he had people worth living for, now they don’t have him. Sixteen (16) and ran away with his friend, no questions asked, sixteen (16) and helped said friend save kids from a church fire. SIXTEEN (16) and in a hospital bed, unable to feel his lower half. It doesn’t hurt much, he says, but even if it doesn’t hurt physically, being stuck in that bed with machinery on you; you know you’re not going to be the same when you’re out, if you even make it out. Too young and had seen too much, but not what someone should’ve seen at his age. Sixteen (16) and he never got to the end of Gone with the Wind with Ponyboy. The last three (3) greasers— which were definitely more like family than blood had ever been— he saw were Dally, Ponyboy, and Two-Bit. When he died, there were two of those people by his side. Johnny didn’t really get to see anyone else in the gang before his death, didn’t get to smile and talk even when it seemed to pain him. Johnny saw his best friends; but maybe, maybe that was enough. He didn’t die by himself, he died beside the people he loved. Before the sunrise, Johnny died. Before the sunrise, Dally joined him
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"Wash feels Church behind every hit, swing and weave, refining angles and force like a dance. And Church catches Wash at pace right along with him, changing tactics like it’s an old song he sings along to. And, for a minute, they think: This is it. This is what it was supposed to be."
art for Mind over Matter by @kineticallyanywhere aka one of my fav fics of all time
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Hello! Not an ask, just find the option of anonymity useful. I know the scene you’re talking about, with Ponyboy and the pop bottle. I’m sending you the scene as it is in the book because I’m very normal :]
" Big deal. I busted the end off my bottle and held on to the neck and tossed away my cigarette. “You get back into your car or you’ll get split.”
They looked kind of surprised, and one of them backed up.
“I mean it.” I hopped off the car. “I’ve had about all I can take from you guys.” I started towards them, holding the bottle the way Tim Shepard holds his switch— out and away from myself, in a loose but firm hold. I guess they knew I meant business, because they got into their car and drove off.
“You really would have used that bottle, wouldn’t you?” Two-Bit had been watching from the store doorway. “Steve and me were backing you, but I guess we didn’t need to. You’d have really cut them up, huh?”
“I guess so,” I said with a sigh. I didn’t see what Two-Bit was sweating about— anyone else could have done the same thing and Two-Bit wouldn’t have thought about it twice.
“Ponyboy, listen, don’t get tough. You’re not like the rest of us and don’t try to be . . .”
What was the matter with Two-Bit? I knew as well as he did that if you got tough you didn’t get hurt. Get smart and nothing can touch you . . .
“What in the world are you doing?” Two-Bit’s voice broke into my thoughts.
I looked up at him. “Picking up the glass.”
He stared at me for a second, then grinned. “You little sonofagun,” he said in a relieved voice. I didn’t know what he was talking about, so I just went on picking up the glass from the bottle end and put it in the trash can. I didn’t want anyone to get a flat tire. "
(Chapter 12, pages 171-172)
"You get back in your car, of You'll Get Split."
THATS MY BOY !!! Dallas down in hell gettin his job offer and he'd be so fuckin proud of this kid.
Thanks so much for sending this!!! I wish people taked about this scene more
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➫ monthly book round-up: july 2024
books read: 8 [-27%]
average rating: 4 [+4%]
average speed: 7.9 days [+22%]
total pages: 3,077 [-14%]
yearly goal progress: 47/50 [94%]
best of the month: the bullet that missed, richard osman
worst of the month: the other black girl, zakiya dalila harris
5* reads:
the bullet that missed, richard osman
such a fun age, kiley reid
4.5* reads:
the man who died twice, richard osman
she would be king, wayétu moore
3.5* reads:
dracula, bram stoker
what you are looking for is in the library, michiko aoyama
the sellout, paul beatty
2.5* reads:
the other black girl, zakiya dalila harris
currently reading:
family lore, elizabeth acevedo
empireland: how imperialism has shaped modern britain, sathnam sanghera
crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky
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