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#55851voted by our readers
By LestyPatrick PLATINUM
Darlington, South Carolina

While lounging lonely in a café, I gazed over my cup of coffee, I do realize this cliché, His eyes locked with mine instantly, His face casually lit into a smile, After he wal...
LestyPatrick PLATINUM, Darlington, South Carolina
43 articles 5 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid"John Keats


#55852 Poetry
By Mandy22 GOLD
Apollo, Pennsylvania
Mandy22 GOLD, Apollo, Pennsylvania
10 articles 0 photos 19 comments

Favorite Quote:
"True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, then it's the most beautiful lie we have."

#55853 Poetry
Traveler MAG
By DeanMoriarty SILVER
Newark, Delaware
DeanMoriarty SILVER, Newark, Delaware
9 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Letting it get to you. You know what that&rsquo;s called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts.&rdquo; <br /> &mdash; The Doctor

#55854 Poetry
By Marisol1997 SILVER
Las Vegas, Nevada
Marisol1997 SILVER, Las Vegas, Nevada
6 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;As hard as it is to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world&#039;s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us.&quot; ~David Levithan

#55855 Poetry
By kaseynicholl1 BRONZE
Bay Day, California
kaseynicholl1 BRONZE, Bay Day, California
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#55856 Poetry
Paradoxes MAG
By mem228 DIAMOND
Attleboro, Massachusetts
mem228 DIAMOND, Attleboro, Massachusetts
80 articles 5 photos 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

#55857 Poetry
By Anonymous
#55858 Poetry
By Emma.H.96 DIAMOND
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Emma.H.96 DIAMOND, Kalamazoo, Michigan
65 articles 0 photos 67 comments

Favorite Quote:
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should&#039;ve behaved better. -Anne Lamott, from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.

#55859 Poetry
By Travis Cooper BRONZE
Eagle, Nebraska
Travis Cooper BRONZE, Eagle, Nebraska
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#55860 Poetry
By PirateCountry DIAMOND
Muncie, Indiana
PirateCountry DIAMOND, Muncie, Indiana
91 articles 18 photos 330 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I don&#039;t know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.&quot;