Update: I have decided on discontinuing any slash fics in the work, and decided on deleting all slash I have written from this site for The Outsiders. After reading a certian fic (Listen Up by whatcoloristhesky) I realized that the boys are simply friends and nothing more. Sorry for any disappointments.

"Lt. Dan goes through a whole bunch of anger and feeling that things were taken away from him that shouldn't have been and was delt the bad hand and everything, but the important thing about that particular character is that he's standing up at the end of the movie. He's overcome his circumstance and he's at peace at the end of the film. That's the message of Lt. Dan: you can succeed, you can overcome, you can get through."

-Gary Sinise
On the Road w/ Our Troops and Gary Sinise

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"What the hell does liberty mean mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only its a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how in hell can he be telling you to fight for it?
Hell's fire guys had always been fighting for liberty. America fought war in 1776. Lots of guys died. And in the end does America have any more liberty than Canada or Australia who didn't fight at all? Maybe so I'm not arguing I'm just asking. Can you look at a guy and say he's an American who fought for his liberty and anybody can see he's a very different guy from a Canadian who didn't? No by god you can't and that's that. So maybe a lot of guys with wives and kids died in 1776 when they didn't need to die at all. They're dead now anyway. Sure but that doesn't do no good. A guy can think of being dead a hundred years from now and he doesn't mind it. But to think of being dead tomorrow morning and to be dead forever to be nothing but dust and stink in the earth is that liberty?
You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.
Hmmmm.
But what do the dead say?
Did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god I'm glad I'm dead because death is always better than dishonor?"

-Johnny Got His Gun, (c) 1939 Dalton Trumbo; Chapter X

Faves:

Movies: Rumble Fish; Bobby; The Outsiders; The Hitcher; It's the Rage; Snake Eyes; Face/Off; Albino Alligator; Appaloosa; Forrest Gump; Young Guns; The Breakfast Club; You, Me, and Dupree
Actors: Emilio Estevez; Gary Sinise; William Petersen; Patrick Swayze; Samuel L. Jackson; Anthony Michael Hall; Mark Wahlberg
Authors: S. E. Hinton; Robert B. Parker; Stephen King
Books: The Outsiders; Storm of the Century; The Dead Zone; Johnny Got His Gun
Singers/Artists/Bands: Papa Roach; Bush; Leif Garrett; Toby Keith
TV Shows: CSI; CSI: NY; House; NCIS

Quotes:

"When you make a move out of stress or anger, it always ends in catastrophe." - John Casey(Anthony Hopkins), Bobby
"Give me what I want and I'll go away." - Andre Linoge(Colm Feore), Storm of the Century
"Why do you bother helpin' people anyways? It doesn't do any good." - Dallas Winston(Matt Dillon), The Outsiders
"There's too much information!" - Mr. Morgan(Gary Sinise), It's the Rage