S. E. Hinton Quotes

Everyone can relate to struggle.

Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.

but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not by yourself and people understand where you're coming from.

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh.

If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

There is no other way to find ourselves but in each others faces.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

You're not the only one falling

It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

Life's not real easy right now. But I guess I'd rather have it this way than not at all.