This is the terrible thing girls like us have in common" she explained. "Parents, upbringings, lifestyles, that are painfully normal. Middle class." It was almost amoral, being raised this way, she told me fiercely. We'd never really understand pain. And wasn't that the human condition? By shielding us from the real world, pressing their palms over our eyes during all the bad parts. our parents -our parents-were keeping us separate from humanity. We were something else entirely. Meg Haston
About This Quote

The world is not only made up of two kinds of people, those who are rich or poor. The world is also made up of those who are normal and those who are not. People who are raised in middle class backgrounds have a hard time understanding the pain of other people because they themselves have never experienced pain. This quote shows that even though middle class people have never experienced pain, they still think they know what it feels like.

They think they can understand pain but are really just keeping themselves sheltered from real life. When someone’s parents are shielding them from the real world, the real world will always be a mystery to them.

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