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#11941voted by our readers
By taxidriver-logan PLATINUM
Plano, Texas

is a b**** throws the biggest curve balls tears us apart bit by bit until nothing is left it diminishes the person inside it makes us smaller and smaller until...
taxidriver-logan PLATINUM, Plano, Texas
28 articles 1 photo 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
‎"I am going to be okay." - AlmostTen


#11942 Poetry
By MayaReardon SILVER
Boston, Massachusetts
MayaReardon SILVER, Boston, Massachusetts
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;No, you cant be my hero, everybody has to learn how to be their own kind of hero&quot;<br /> -Farscape

#11943 Poetry
By samanthastephens2 SILVER
Sellersburg, Indiana
samanthastephens2 SILVER, Sellersburg, Indiana
9 articles 5 photos 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down &quot;happy&quot;. They told me I didn&rsquo;t understand the assignment.<br /> I told them they didn&rsquo;t understand life.&quot; John Lennon

#11944 Poetry
By SarahxElizabethxMichelle BRONZE
Hanover, Massachusetts
SarahxElizabethxMichelle BRONZE, Hanover, Massachusetts
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;...but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.&quot; - Hunter S. Thompson

#11945 Poetry
By manny08 BRONZE
Mercedes, Texas
manny08 BRONZE, Mercedes, Texas
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#11946 Poetry
By Sarah1517 GOLD
Vashon, Washington
Sarah1517 GOLD, Vashon, Washington
18 articles 0 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
We never really grow up. We only learn how to act in public.

#11947 Poetry
By lil.awol ELITE
Independence, Missouri
lil.awol ELITE, Independence, Missouri
124 articles 0 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;there&#039;s a darkness upon me that&#039;s flooded in light, and i&#039;m frightened by those that don&#039;t see it&quot; ~the avett brothers, head full of doubt

#11948 Poetry
By catieb1112 GOLD
Shelton, Connecticut
catieb1112 GOLD, Shelton, Connecticut
16 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
If you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.

Your_Apathetic_Basketcase ELITE, Orlando, Florida
137 articles 0 photos 42 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Just remember, if the world didn&#039;t suck, we&#039;d all fall off.&quot;<br /> -Derrolyn Anderson<br /> <br /> &quot;Don&#039;t trust everything you see, even salt looks like sugar.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;The sea speaks more honestly... To those willing to drown.&quot; -J.D. Hard

lavannnyaa PLATINUM, Agra, Other
49 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
All we need to do is find someone who tells us that we're worth fighting for.