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By eileen-98 SILVER
Brooklyn, New York

You never listen. I want to leave. You trap me with your doubts. Sometimes I want to be released into a world to learn, to be wronged. I’m going to make mistakes But I’...
eileen-98 SILVER, Brooklyn, New York
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.


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By heatherbug DIAMOND
Elon, North Carolina
heatherbug DIAMOND, Elon, North Carolina
71 articles 0 photos 27 comments
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By chocolateharp SILVER
Plaistow, New Hampshire
chocolateharp SILVER, Plaistow, New Hampshire
8 articles 0 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost." - Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

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By HaleyS. GOLD
Byram, Mississippi
HaleyS. GOLD, Byram, Mississippi
19 articles 0 photos 74 comments

Favorite Quote:
If you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for the shore.<br /> -Ray Bradbury

lil-miss-sunshine SILVER, Deshler, Ohio
5 articles 1 photo 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Maybe it&#039;s not about the happy ending, maybe it&#039;s about the story.

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By Nofie GOLD
Jericho, New York
Nofie GOLD, Jericho, New York
17 articles 0 photos 3 comments
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By BlondeAndProud PLATINUM
Corseaux, Other
BlondeAndProud PLATINUM, Corseaux, Other
29 articles 0 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath

governtheday92609 SILVER, Crestwood, Kentucky
7 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shall pass through this world but once. If therefore, there be any<br /> kindness I can show, or and good thing I can do, let me do it now... for<br /> I shall not pass this way again.&quot; - Etienne de Grellet

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ThatGirlWhoRuinedEverything DIAMOND, Hanover, Illinois
75 articles 5 photos 2 comments
aliciarae GOLD, Wright City, Missouri
18 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;In a society that has abolished all adventure, the only adventure left is to abolish that society&quot;