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  1. Public Bookmark 20

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    Going back to the money, Ponyboy began to notice something about the way the it was all placed. Some of the bills were neatly folded and stacked while others were crumpled into balls, as though they’d been angrily thrown in at the end of a rough day.

    Or a rough argument.

    And all too suddenly, it clicked with him. All the vague threats Darry made in the haze of their fights, all of the spat out declarations of moving on and leaving Soda and Ponyboy to fend for themselves, all the extra shifts and longer nights Darry seemed to add without thinking they’d notice…

    It wasn’t simple angry threatening. It was a warning. He had a plan.

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    In which Darry hides money from his brothers, and Ponyboy believes he's preparing to cut out for good.

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    29 Apr 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 28

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    Darry knows, rationally, that healing "takes time".
    He just wish he knew how much longer that was, or if Ponyboy was even healing or simply fading away.
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    Darry drives Ponyboy home from therapy and gets asked a stupid question.

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    19 Mar 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 56

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    Love gets them into all kinds of things, doesn’t it?

    It’s what got them into this one after all. Darry loved his brothers enough to throw all his dreams away, loved them enough to spend his twenties breaking his back, loved them enough to become a completely different man. The Darry from last year was gone and they weren’t ever going to see it again.


    When Darry's hurt turns into something a whole lot worse, everyone realizes that he's the only thing holding everything together. What do you do when the glue's gone and you're left with only the shards?

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    03 Dec 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 5

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    On the third day in a row that he’s late to dinner—so late that Soda has to reheat his plate—Darry says, “What you been writing about, Pony?”

    Or: Ponyboy is determined not to forget his friends.

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    14 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 82

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    “Pony, Pony,” Darry sits up from the rug and takes his youngest brother by the arms, “Johnny is dead. Dally is dead. But you can’t go too. We’d fall apart without you. We’d be nothing without you. Ever since you and Soda were born, my entire life has been about you two. You’re everything to me and, and-”

    His voice cracks right down the middle, like a splinter of lightning across a darkened sky.

    “Ponyboy, I watched Mom and Dad die, then Johnny and Dally. I can’t watch you die too. I know I’m hard on you, I know sometimes I get mad and I shout and I struggle, but I love you. I’m just so scared.”


    Based on a scene in the musical where Cherry returns Johnny’s clothes to Ponyboy and he just sits with his knees to his chin, clutching the bundle of clothes to his chest and refusing to speak. It was so poignant, such a moment of raw and real grief.

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    11 Nov 2024