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lookingformargo SILVER, Ithaca, New York
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A child said, "What is the grass?" fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven... and now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. -Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and falling. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. -Looking For Alaska Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. -Paper Towns It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. -Paper Towns Elsewhere the landscape is more frank. The light falls without letup, blindingly. - A Life, Sylvia Plath

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AsIAm PLATINUM, Somewhere, North Carolina
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"According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. (Generally those who don't have to do it. Politicians and writers spring to mind.) I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking." — Jonathan Stroud (Ptolemy's Gate)

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AsIAm PLATINUM, Somewhere, North Carolina
48 articles 3 photos 606 comments

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"According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. (Generally those who don't have to do it. Politicians and writers spring to mind.) I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking." — Jonathan Stroud (Ptolemy's Gate)

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Anna141 PLATINUM, Yarmouth, Maine
23 articles 0 photos 29 comments

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"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." Auth

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alligator6 SILVER, Neenah, Wisconsin
6 articles 0 photos 31 comments

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What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

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thebrighterparts BRONZE, Newton, Massachusetts
3 articles 0 photos 7 comments

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xxSiennaSarcasm SILVER, Thomasville, Pennsylvania
9 articles 0 photos 9 comments

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"We loved with a love that was more than love"~Edgar Allan Poe

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EthanCalhoun PLATINUM, Fairview, New Jersey
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IdentityMangler PLATINUM, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
34 articles 3 photos 30 comments

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Be kind. You never know whose fighting for their life.

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