Depending on your relationship with romantic films, these quotes may have warmed your heart or triggered your gag reflex. Whether you cooed or cringed at these sweet'n sappy lines, at least we all understand that coming-of-age romance is an idyllic time: Youth's first foray into the deeper relationships! Filled with puppy love and irreplaceable memories! What better time is there? You don't know how good you have it until it's gone! Yeeeeah, any young person could tell you it is so much more complicated than that.
Teen romance films serve a more elegant function than one might give them credit for. Much like in our real lives, we recall the saccharine, lovey-dovey moments. That's what romance movies are, right? Good old corny schmaltz, meant to illicit a serotonin response in the brain for an hour or two. It can go underappreciated how these movies capture the angsty, insecure, and downright nutty elements of teen life. These films serve as both a trip down memory lane.
