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By mynameisobel PLATINUM
Collingswood, New Jersey

Before high school my mind was operated by a two way street with traffic light directing each molecule of my being Before high school my body was a pure and unscathed landscape wi...
mynameisobel PLATINUM, Collingswood, New Jersey
27 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
You can not be brave if only good things have happened to you.


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By EllyApolloRose GOLD
Washington, Pennsylvania
EllyApolloRose GOLD, Washington, Pennsylvania
14 articles 18 photos 22 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;When you&rsquo;re alone, you can make any choice you want. But when someone loves you, you lose that right.&quot;<br /> -Alice Paul in Iron Jawed Angels

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By laceandcoffee PLATINUM
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
laceandcoffee PLATINUM, Rio Rancho, New Mexico
21 articles 0 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;We make up horrors to help us escape from the real ones.&quot;- Stephen King<br /> &quot;But I don&#039;t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry. I want danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.&quot;- Aldous Huxley

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By laceandcoffee PLATINUM
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
laceandcoffee PLATINUM, Rio Rancho, New Mexico
21 articles 0 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;We make up horrors to help us escape from the real ones.&quot;- Stephen King<br /> &quot;But I don&#039;t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry. I want danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.&quot;- Aldous Huxley

ThatOneWriterChick BRONZE, Spokane, Washington
3 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it&#039;s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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By cmarcon BRONZE
San Francisco, California
cmarcon BRONZE, San Francisco, California
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don&#039;t see any.&quot; - Orson Scott Card

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By colorguardgrl ELITE
Derry, New Hampshire
colorguardgrl ELITE, Derry, New Hampshire
111 articles 10 photos 19 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn&#039;t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn&#039;t be. And what it wouldn&#039;t be, it would. You see?&rdquo; - Mad Hatter

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By maiaa BRONZE
Tiburon, California
maiaa BRONZE, Tiburon, California
1 article 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Listen to many, speak to few. -William Shakespeare

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By sarahcarp63 DIAMOND
Denver, Colorado
sarahcarp63 DIAMOND, Denver, Colorado
51 articles 2 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
&#039;The really important people in life have a way of coming back to you&#039;<br /> &#039;Good enough isn&#039;t good enough&#039;<br /> &#039;You don&#039;t have to be sick to get better&#039;<br /> &#039;Come what may and love it&#039;

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By ElisaTheDuck ELITE
Rigaud, Other
ElisaTheDuck ELITE, Rigaud, Other
323 articles 5 photos 166 comments