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#30921voted by our readers
By BeansAndCars2 BRONZE
Phoenix, Arizona

Throughout all my years of school, I have always focused on everything else except school. I would always go to school and just talk into class and not do my work. I would go home...
BeansAndCars2 BRONZE, Phoenix, Arizona
4 articles 4 photos 0 comments

#30922 Nonfiction
By FaithSnyder16 ELITE
Metamora, Ohio
FaithSnyder16 ELITE, Metamora, Ohio
180 articles 8 photos 97 comments

Favorite Quote:
Write what you know, and dream of. - Jane Austen
People throw rocks at things that shine - Taylor Swift
Just Keep Swimming! Just Keep Swimming! - Ellen DeGengeres as Dory

#30923 Nonfiction
By Duchamp SILVER
Noble, Oklahoma
Duchamp SILVER, Noble, Oklahoma
8 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"ok so let me get this straight, one really big meal a day then we go to sleep, no paper towels but a little bit of bread because we're not Nazis and as many popsicles as we want"-Nathan Explosion

#30924 Nonfiction
By jortiz433 BRONZE
Norwood Park Township, Illinois
jortiz433 BRONZE, Norwood Park Township, Illinois
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#30925 Nonfiction
By Beliza_Heart SILVER
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Beliza_Heart SILVER, Highlands Ranch, Colorado
7 articles 5 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I cannot tell my story without going a long way back." Herman Hesse in the prolouge to Demian
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” GK Chesterton

#30926 Nonfiction
By dolfinsfan SILVER
Gardnerville, Nevada
dolfinsfan SILVER, Gardnerville, Nevada
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
"'The real geniuses are artists.'"





- Alaska in John Green's "Looking For Alaska"
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."





- M. Kathleen Casey

#30927 Nonfiction
tfyoya GOLD, Acworth, Georgia
15 articles 1 photo 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Never be someone that you not. You'll waste your time and everyone else's because they don't know the real you. ~me

#30928 Nonfiction
By Kalebsmith BRONZE
Paso Robles, California
Kalebsmith BRONZE, Paso Robles, California
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#30929 Nonfiction
iloveLesMis BRONZE, Horsham, Pennsylvania
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Every journey must begin with one step."

#30930 Nonfiction
By Anonymous