Napervillains

Naperville and other places of privilege can be so disappointing and embarrassing. A friendly reminder that our snobbishness runs far deeper than the criterias of wealth we passed in a magazine's ranking last month. This topic in itself is well deserving of its own post but the quote and my friend's concluding sentence below sum up this occurrence quite simply. (Click on her name to go to her post she wrote because I think she did a good job of writing a reprimand that all spoiled, suburban kids should take note of.)

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Les Misérables - Victor Hugo 

You'd think that with more education, more opportunity and more money, you'd learn to have a bit more compassion.

- missorrowrei 

^^^It's really as simple as that. 

These words will end up being the barest of reflections, devoid of the sensations words cannot convey. Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

The Lover's Dictionary - David Levithan 

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery 

Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us never think about us as much as we think about them, and that is the ultimate irony: their deeds live inside us, festering, while they live out in the world, plucking peaches off trees, their minds on things lovely and sweet.

This Burns My Heart - Samuel Park 

Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.

The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay