"With much talk about teen-age marriages, I feel, for whatever it may be worth to some young couple on the brink of same, that I should tell about mine.
I was sixteen, and Bo Jo was seventeen when we got married. As the statistics say, most teen-agers who marry, marry because they have to. Or else. We looked into some of the 'or elses' and decided they weren't for us. Maybe marriage wasn't either. But at least it was a positive thing to do. And everything else looked negative." (7)

"I said, 'I think you're trying to tell me something, but I'd like to hear it straight if you don't mind. I think you're trying to tell me that this is my little red wagon. All mine, I think-'
'Aw no, kid!' He reached under the table and grabbed my hand. 'I'm just scared like you. And studying...