In The Outsiders, what are two good quotations Johnny says.

Johnny seems to play an incredibly important role in this
novel in terms of representing a good character who is a victim of circumstances beyond
his control. When I think of Johnny, I think about his essential goodness in comparison
to other greasers in the gang. This is demonstrated of course in numerous ways, but one
of them is in Chapter Six when he works out how to resolve the crisis that he and
Ponyboy are facing hiding away in a church:

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"We're goin' back and turn ourselves
in."

This represents a desire
of Johnny to resolve the situation and also an acknowledgement that he did do something
wrong. He recognises that he and Ponyboy cannot stay in the church for ever, and this is
the only way he can see to ensure that Ponyboy is given a future. He hopes that he will
receive a lenient sentence, but it is clear he does this sacrificially, knowing that
this will give Ponyboy a future.

Secondly, I would want to
go to the end of the novel and look at the letter that Johnny writes for Ponyboy and the
impact this has on Ponyboy. I think one of the most important things he says
is:

You still
have a lot of time to make yourself what you want. There's still lots of good in the
world.

What is important
about this quote is that it signals that the desperate situation that we are presented
with in the novel of Socs on one side and Greasers on the other, with no hope of change
or escape, is not permanent, and that Ponyboy's future is not set in stone. He can still
make something of himself and does not need to suffer the same fate as Johnny. It is
this that inspires Ponyboy to record his experiences to try and produce some form of
change.