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"If you tote more than two loads of lumber, Soda and I will skin you!"

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"I was stuck in a book."

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"You're living in a vacuum Pony, and you're going to have to cut it out."

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"What's the sweat about school work."

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"Soda would always be the middleman, but that didn't mean he had to keep getting pulled apart."

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"Soda and Darry always got spruced up for a rumble."

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"I never knew you to play chicken in a rumble."

Two-Bit to Ponyboy

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"Sodapop kept them in stitches."

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"And if you [Two-Bit] had the sense of a billy goat, you'd try to help around your place instead of bumming around ours."

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"The reporters fired on question right after another at me and got me so confused I didn't know what was coming off."

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"Mrs. O'Briant and I think you were sent straight from heaven."

About Johnny, Pony & Dally. Said by Jerry.

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"It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering pack like the Sons in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber."

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"He had an elfish face, with high cheekbones and a pointed chin, small, sharp animal teeth, and ears like a lynx."

About Dally

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"My stomach gave a violent start and turned into a hunk of ice"

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"Darry leaped to feet."

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"Stay gold, Ponyboy"

(An allusion too!!)

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"The reporters fired one question right after another at me"

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"We knew better than to talk to Dally when his eyes were blazing"

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"He kind of radiates"

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"Leaf subsides to leaf"

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"Her early leaf is a flower"

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"Nature's first green is gold"

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There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose

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"You know how it is, when you wake up in a strange place and wonder where in the world you are, until memory comes rushing over you like a wave."

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"The sky was lighter in the east, and the horizon was a thin gold line"

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"Dally's word is law."

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"I couldn't laugh because I was scared I'd drown in the smoke."

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"the ribbon of highway and the small dots that were houses and cars."

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"Dally grinned wolfishly"

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"He still reminded me of a lost puppy who had been kicked too often. (Ponyboy describing Johnny)"

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"I mean it. He was as white as a ghost and his eyes were wild-looking, like the eyes of an animal in a trap." (about Johnny)

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"Johnny couldn't say 'boo' to a goose."

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"When you're in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering pack, like the Socs in their Social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber."

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"If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you'll have Johnny."

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"They were all tough as nails and looked it."

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"I'd just as soon tease a full-grown grizzly." (About Darry)

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"He get's drunk on just plain living."

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"He was the gang's pet." (About Johnny)

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"Life was one big joke to two-bit."

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Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back. (lines 13-15)

The metaphor here is that the speaker chooses one path hoping to keep the other for another day, however he knows he won't get back there - this is a metaphor for choices and how when we make one, we typically do not that chance to make the other

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both (lines 1 -2)

The metaphor here is the road - the road represents life, the 'forks' in the road represent the choices we have to make. We cannot choose both roads or choices and have to only choose one.