KEEP in Classic Quotes

1  Never could keep that hair back.

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

2  I keep getting tireder and tireder.

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Context   In Chapter 12

3  He nodded, keeping his eyes closed.

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Context   In Chapter 8

4  "Sure," I said, trying for Soda's sake to keep the sarcasm out of my voice.

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Context   In Chapter 1

5  I figured five would keep me going through the rumble and maybe get rid of my headache.

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Context   In Chapter 9

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

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Context   In Chapter 12

7  He was stroking my hair and I could hear the sobs racking him as he fought to keep back the tears.

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Context   In Chapter 6

8  Darry had told me to keep my mouth shut no matter what Randy and everybody said, that I'd get my turn.

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Context   In Chapter 12

9  If something beefed him, he didn't keep quiet about it, and if you rubbed him the wrong way--- look out.

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Context   In Chapter 6

10  He'd risk a robbery, he said, if it meant keeping one of the boys from blowing up and robbing a gas station or something.

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Context   In Chapter 7

11  Finally he kicked me in the head so hard it stunned me, and I lay limp, trying to clear my mind and keep from blacking out.

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Context   In Chapter 9

12  She was coming through to me all right, probably because I was a greaser, and younger; she didn't have to keep her guard up with me.

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Context   In Chapter 3

13  Not even the rattling of the train could keep me awake, and I went to sleep in a hoodlum's jacket, with a gun lying next to my hand.

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Context   In Chapter 4

14  Soda was keeping up a steady stream of wisecracks and clowning, and Steve had turned up the radio so loud that it almost broke my eardrums.

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Context   In Chapter 9

15  I don't know how Dallas could travel so fast and hard after being knocked around and having his sore arm hurt some more, but I tried to keep up with him.

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

16  But I remembered Dally pulling Johnny through the window of the burning church; Dally giving us his gun, although it could mean jail for him; Dally risking his life for us, trying to keep Johnny out of trouble.

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Context   In Chapter 10

17  a dropout so he could get a job and keep me in school, and Darry, getting old before his time trying to run a family and hold on to two jobs and never having any fun--- while the Socs had so much spare time and money that they jumped us and each other for kicks, had beer blasts and river-bottom parties because they didn't know what else to do.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 3