Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard.” - Al to Rachel

For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.

Trent and Ellasbeth did the nasty? Ewwww!

Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot.

They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.

No," she said firmly. "I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don't want you with me. You aren't done. You see too far ahead. You need to make the world in your thoughts a real one that our children can fly in." - Matalina to Jenks

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.