You know . . . a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.
Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.25, Simon and Schuster