- [first lines]
- Jo Polniaczek: Come on, Mrs. G.! It's time to set off for the station! Let's go!
- Edna Garrett: Jo, we'll be two hours early!
- Natalie Green: And the train will be two hours late. We're talking AmTrak here!
- Terry Largo: [tomboy, to her Dad:] I just wanna do what other fourteen-year-old girls are doing.
- Paul Largo: If she means that, we are really in trouble.
- Terry Largo: What's so terrible about me wanting to be a girl?
- Blair Warner: [answers phone, cooing:] Hello?
- Jo Polniaczek: It's me. I'm having an emergency.
- Blair Warner: Good heavens! You're in jail?
- Jo Polniaczek: [entering her Uncle Sal's garage] Hiya! Who do you have to know to get an oil change around here?