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#193861voted by our readers
By Jillian Brenner BRONZE
Marion, Arkansas

What marks the point of no return? What makes a soul shatter? What pain is so numbing not even fire can burn? What turns something whole to tatters? How can the darkness blot...
Jillian Brenner BRONZE, Marion, Arkansas
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

#193862 Poetry
By cdawn2012 GOLD
CheyenneWells, Colorado
cdawn2012 GOLD, CheyenneWells, Colorado
16 articles 1 photo 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
Love is powerful, irrational and irrevocable, for I love as Jesus loved.

#193863 Poetry
By simplyy_hilaryy_ BRONZE
Lake Balboa, California
simplyy_hilaryy_ BRONZE, Lake Balboa, California
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." ~ Plato

#193864 Poetry
By annmariemeyer GOLD
Atkinson, Nebraska
annmariemeyer GOLD, Atkinson, Nebraska
13 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”-C.S. Lewis

#193865 Poetry
By mga1231 BRONZE
Canton, Michigan
mga1231 BRONZE, Canton, Michigan
3 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
there's always tomorrow

#193866 Poetry
By lindseyluff BRONZE
Flushing, Michigan
lindseyluff BRONZE, Flushing, Michigan
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#193867 Poetry
#193868 Poetry
By wonderkay4 GOLD
Jacksonville, Florida
wonderkay4 GOLD, Jacksonville, Florida
11 articles 12 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster that didn't succeed in swallowing me alive'"

#193869 Poetry
homerunhitter548 BRONZE, Oak Park, Illinois
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"It isnt wrong, but it isnt right.....it's just us"

#193870 Poetry
By darkangel09 GOLD
South Huntington, New York
darkangel09 GOLD, South Huntington, New York
13 articles 0 photos 64 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."-Voltaire