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#420041voted by our readers
By OcelotWarrior PLATINUM
Micro, North Carolina

What was once just a thought, Turned into a despairing feeling. Upon vocalization, The realization overcame me.   A disbelief that was once my own, Became a car crash to...
OcelotWarrior PLATINUM, Micro, North Carolina
37 articles 1 photo 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you or you can let it strengthen you.


#420042 Poetry
LillianRoseberry PLATINUM, Manly, Iowa
33 articles 3 photos 0 comments
#420043 Poetry
Serena43 SILVER, Seoul, Other
7 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#420044 Poetry
Writingstar SILVER, Hayward, California
9 articles 0 photos 26 comments
#420045 Poetry
By Words-of-trust BRONZE
Riverview, Florida
Words-of-trust BRONZE, Riverview, Florida
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Greatness is only achieved by trial and error.

#420046 Poetry
By fernando25 BRONZE
Winters, California
fernando25 BRONZE, Winters, California
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#420047 Poetry
By LiederMadchen ELITE
Aurora, Oregon
LiederMadchen ELITE, Aurora, Oregon
132 articles 0 photos 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
For, I could not love thee, Dear, so much,<br /> Loved I not honour more.<br /> -- Richard Lovelace, quoted often by Baroness Emmuska Orczy in The Scarlet Pimpernel

#420048 Poetry
By lydia.w GOLD
Myerstown, Pennsylvania
lydia.w GOLD, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
11 articles 7 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
I was always an unusual girl.<br /> My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean...<br /> And if I said I didn&#039;t plan for it to turn out this way I&#039;d be lying...<br /> Because I was born to be the other woman.<br /> Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.<br /> Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn&#039;t even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.

#420049 Poetry
By Nivetha BRONZE
Coimbatore, Other
Nivetha BRONZE, Coimbatore, Other
2 articles 1 photo 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Too many to count.

#420050 Poetry
By Nated315 DIAMOND
Georgetown, New York
Nated315 DIAMOND, Georgetown, New York
92 articles 7 photos 105 comments

Favorite Quote:
Truth has many shades. It&#039;s not a matter of black and white, but many grays.