- Radio DJ: Today is Election Day, people. Vote against Vietnam, vote against destruction, vote against sending our children to die!
- Ramón Morales: Last week they shipped my brother home from Vietnam in pieces.
- Stella Nicholls: I'm so sorry.
- Ramón Morales: Last week when I got my draft notice... I couldn't... they'd send me there to die. If the book can read me, I'm afraid what it'll say.
- Ramón Morales: If you're serious about being a writer, it's not going to happen here. You have to go to the city.
- Stella Nicholls: I can't leave my dad.
- Ramón Morales: Hospitals have records.
- Stella Nicholls: Records of Sarah Bellows?
- Chuck Steinberg: Then what're we still doing here? Let's go!