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Sundown
By lookingformargo SILVER
Ithaca, New York

We wait for sundown On the empty rooftop of a parking garage Standing still and separated Above the city that made us so We wait for sundown In a blurry photograph of six si...
lookingformargo SILVER, Ithaca, New York
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

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A child said, &quot;What is the grass?&quot; fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven... and now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. -Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass<br /> <br /> <br /> We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and falling. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. -Looking For Alaska<br /> <br /> Here&#039;s what&#039;s not beautiful about it: from here, you can&#039;t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It&#039;s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It&#039;s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I&#039;ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> It is so hard to leave&mdash;until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.<br /> The light falls without letup, blindingly. - A Life, Sylvia Plath

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I Miss You
By KindallNicole BRONZE
Grantsboro, North Carolina
KindallNicole BRONZE, Grantsboro, North Carolina
4 articles 0 photos 6 comments

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Courage doesn\&#039;t always roar, sometimes it\&#039;s the thing at the end of the day saying,\&quot;I\&#039;ll try again tomorrow.\&quot;

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I'll Be Damned
By PAZS12 PLATINUM
Menomonie, Wisconsin
PAZS12 PLATINUM, Menomonie, Wisconsin
26 articles 0 photos 1 comment

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Be you, Be true!

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A Sorrowful Story
By EPluribusUnum DIAMOND
Woodbine, Maryland
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

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&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

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To Feel Pain
By Anonymous
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Ignited
By Ruiki SILVER
Malabon City, Other
Ruiki SILVER, Malabon City, Other
6 articles 0 photos 3 comments
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Live and Die
By HopefullyTrue BRONZE
East New Market, Maryland
HopefullyTrue BRONZE, East New Market, Maryland
1 article 1 photo 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;one day your life will pass through your eyes. make it worth waching&quot;- unknown

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Catherine Wheel
By Afanen PLATINUM
Santa Rosa, California
Afanen PLATINUM, Santa Rosa, California
49 articles 0 photos 47 comments

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&quot;But you see, Meg, just because we don&#039;t understand doesn&#039;t mean that the explanation doesn&#039;t exist.&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> - Madeleine L&#039;Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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Step Whatever MAG
By Afanen PLATINUM
Santa Rosa, California
Afanen PLATINUM, Santa Rosa, California
49 articles 0 photos 47 comments

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&quot;But you see, Meg, just because we don&#039;t understand doesn&#039;t mean that the explanation doesn&#039;t exist.&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> - Madeleine L&#039;Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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Whispers
By Krista_T BRONZE
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Krista_T BRONZE, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
1 article 11 photos 7 comments

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&quot;Don&#039;t think or judge, just listen&quot; -Sarah Dessen<br /> &quot;When words fail, music speaks&quot; -Unknown

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