EXCEPT in Classic Quotes

1  Darry doesn't love anyone or anything, except maybe Soda.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 1

2  There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

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Context   In Chapter 9

3  Nobody else was there except two girls who were sitting down front.

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Context   In Chapter 2

4  I would have cried at the sight of him so still except I couldn't in front of people.

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Context   In Chapter 6

5  I might have stumbled around all night except for a man who asked me if I wanted a ride.

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Context   In Chapter 10

6  "I wish it was any one of us except Johnny," he said, and his voice was serious for once.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 8

7  He'd been coming over to see me almost every day, although he didn't do much except talk to me.

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Context   In Chapter 11

8  But Johnny, except for the fact that his hands were twitching, looked as cool as Darry ever had.

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Context   In Chapter 4

9  I had been checked over, and except for a few burns and a big bruise across my back, I was all right.

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Context   In Chapter 6

10  Except for Darry, who was too proud of his athletic health to risk a cigarette, we had all started smoking at an early age.

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Context   In Chapter 6

11  I had cried, too, if you want to know the truth, because Soda never really wanted anything except a horse, and he'd lost his.

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Context   In Chapter 3

12  So he never went anywhere and never did anything anymore, except work out at gyms and go skiing with some old friends of his sometimes.

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Context   In Chapter 1

13  All the Socs told the same story and stuck mainly to the truth, except they said Johnny had killed Bob; but I figured I could straighten that point out when I got my turn.

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Context   In Chapter 12

14  His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something, and then you could hear her yelling at him clear down at our house.

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Context   In Chapter 1

15  I had a long walk home and no company, but I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with the actors.

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Context   In Chapter 1

16  Besides Darry and Soda and me, nobody was there except Randy and his parents and Cherry Valance and her parents and a couple of the other guys that had jumped Johnny and me that night.

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Context   In Chapter 12

17  Several people yelled at us, I think because we were pretty racked-up looking, but Dally had nothing on his mind except Johnny, and I was too mixed up to know anything but that I had to follow Dally.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 9