" Things were so much easier when I was younger. I bet my parents would laugh at me for saying that, because in their mind I’m still too young to have real emotions and thoughts and feelings, too young to have a mind of my own. I don’t think it’s because they’re such bad parents — I think it’s because like a lot of grown-ups, they just can’t remember how it feels to be a teenager. It’s not that our emotions aren’t real, it’s more that they’re hyper-real because we’re feeling them for the first time. "

― Sarah Darer Littman , Purge