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By Anny_Grace SILVER
Centennial, Colorado

I look in to your eyes And I know I love you I look into your eyes and see them fill to the brim with grief I hold your hand inches from your scars I cringe And smile at...
Anny_Grace SILVER, Centennial, Colorado
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By PoetryAngel14 PLATINUM
Ithaca, New York
PoetryAngel14 PLATINUM, Ithaca, New York
26 articles 0 photos 53 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.&quot; ~Robert Brault<br /> &quot;Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.&quot; ~Albert Einstein

NineLives_4ever BRONZE, Sunnyside, Washington
1 article 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Its true that we don&#039;t know what we&#039;ve got until we lose it, but it&#039;s also true that we don&#039;t know what we&#039;ve been missing until it arrives.&quot;

FemaleShakespeare94 SILVER, Austell, Georgia
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Be the change you want to see in the world- Ghandi

Patricia012795 SILVER, Roy, Washington
7 articles 6 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
Too many to pick!

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By musicaldifference BRONZE
New Orleans, Louisiana
musicaldifference BRONZE, New Orleans, Louisiana
3 articles 0 photos 3 comments
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By lookingformargo SILVER
Ithaca, New York
lookingformargo SILVER, Ithaca, New York
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
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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By KindallNicole BRONZE
Grantsboro, North Carolina
KindallNicole BRONZE, Grantsboro, North Carolina
4 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
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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By PAZS12 PLATINUM
Menomonie, Wisconsin
PAZS12 PLATINUM, Menomonie, Wisconsin
26 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Be you, Be true!

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

Favorite Quote:
&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