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#1921voted by our readers
By sidney-lynn BRONZE
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Hey dad, are you proud of me now? After fours, I’m finally out of the dark Hey momma, I should’ve prayed from the start I should’ve known that there wasn&rsquo...
sidney-lynn BRONZE, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” <br /> ― Friedrich Nietzsche


FlightOfPiscine PLATINUM, Plano, Texas
35 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Irony [is] the song of a prisoner who's come to love his cage" - David Foster Wallace

#1923 Poetry
By coffeeaddict-05 GOLD
Woodland Park, Colorado
coffeeaddict-05 GOLD, Woodland Park, Colorado
15 articles 1 photo 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Don't compare yourself to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon, they both shine when the time is right.

#1924 Poetry
By Mckay ELITE
Somewhere, Virginia
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
146 articles 0 photos 2230 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.&quot;<br /> &mdash;Apple&rsquo;s &ldquo;Think Different&rdquo; commercial, 1997<br /> &ldquo;Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn&#039;t understood.&rdquo; <br /> ― Weihui Zhou

#1925 Poetry
By Anonymous
#1926 Poetry
By victoriabuj SILVER
Alexandria, Virginia
victoriabuj SILVER, Alexandria, Virginia
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Everyone has the cards to win, but few play them right.

#1927 Poetry
exisentialismishumanism BRONZE, Woodstock, Georgia
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”<br /> ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

#1928 Poetry
By CheyenneC GOLD
Vero Beach, Florida
CheyenneC GOLD, Vero Beach, Florida
14 articles 0 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways.

#1929 Poetry
By Jackie_Huang PLATINUM
Scarsdale, New York
Jackie_Huang PLATINUM, Scarsdale, New York
20 articles 37 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Everything happens for a reason

jupiterbeckett PLATINUM, Toronto, Ontario
22 articles 0 photos 0 comments