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#65781voted by our readers
By mollsry17 GOLD
Scotch Plains, New Jersey

I’m the only one who knows the truth I’m the only one who knows it’s you You’re the one who killed the world The one who cut up the doll of a little girl You hide in the shad...
mollsry17 GOLD, Scotch Plains, New Jersey
12 articles 10 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"We learn from failure, not from success"


#65782 Poetry
By CarolineBK GOLD
Washington DC, District Of Columbia
CarolineBK GOLD, Washington DC, District Of Columbia
12 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Look, if you was a fish, mother nature&#039;d take care of you, wouldn&#039;t she? Right?&quot;<br /> -Horwitz the cabbie, The Catcher in the Rye

#65783 Poetry
By AprilW GOLD
Hartland, Wisconsin
AprilW GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
10 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
For a star to be born there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse. so collapse. crumble. This is not your destruction. This is your birth.<br /> <br /> Girl almighty. She&#039;s not afraid.

#65784 Poetry
By JasonSihan SILVER
Beijing, Other
JasonSihan SILVER, Beijing, Other
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#65785 Poetry
By pampalooga PLATINUM
Natick, Massachusetts
pampalooga PLATINUM, Natick, Massachusetts
30 articles 0 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;We all can&#039;t be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the sides and clap as they go by.&quot; &quot;In the end, they&#039;re just more words.&quot;

#65786 Poetry
By Aderes47 GOLD
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Aderes47 GOLD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
11 articles 0 photos 897 comments

Favorite Quote:
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. <br /> Henry Drummond

#65787 Poetry
By Vellari BRONZE
Lake Villa, Illinois
Vellari BRONZE, Lake Villa, Illinois
3 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.&quot; -J. K. Rowling

Kayla Ingram BRONZE, Cleburne, Texas
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#65789 Poetry
By kowgirlchey BRONZE
Colorado Springs, Colorado
kowgirlchey BRONZE, Colorado Springs, Colorado
1 article 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Oatmeal raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the reason I have trust issues

#65790 Poetry
By Redolvene GOLD
Sunny, Florida
Redolvene GOLD, Sunny, Florida
10 articles 1 photo 33 comments