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By blythebaird BRONZE
Palatine, Illinois

You were five years of Easter Sunday purity. Bleached innocence- you were Peru’s pearl. Five years of lavender cotton bed sheets, your petite body as stainless as where you s...
blythebaird BRONZE, Palatine, Illinois
1 article 0 photos 4 comments

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“I want to live in an honest house
where the motion detector is so sharp
it knows when my thoughts leave the room.

I want a clap on lamp that works as a polygraph;
when you swear you still love me, the lights flicker.”
― Megan Falley


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By Netnel GOLD
Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Netnel GOLD, Fair Lawn, New Jersey
17 articles 1 photo 22 comments

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Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Still_Thinking GOLD, Hebron, Connecticut
10 articles 1 photo 8 comments

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"When I said that Mercy stood
Within the borders by the wood,
I meant the lenient beast with claws
And bloody swift-dispatching jaws."
~LAWRENCE SPINGARN

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By CrazySissi GOLD
Newman Lake, Washington
CrazySissi GOLD, Newman Lake, Washington
19 articles 10 photos 37 comments

Favorite Quote:
My only love sprung from my only hate. Too early seen unknown and known too late.

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By maelstrom14 GOLD
Oak Habor, Washington
maelstrom14 GOLD, Oak Habor, Washington
14 articles 0 photos 63 comments

Favorite Quote:
let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments...etc

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By CrazySissi GOLD
Newman Lake, Washington
CrazySissi GOLD, Newman Lake, Washington
19 articles 10 photos 37 comments

Favorite Quote:
My only love sprung from my only hate. Too early seen unknown and known too late.

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By SpringRayyn PLATINUM
Lakeville, Minnesota
SpringRayyn PLATINUM, Lakeville, Minnesota
34 articles 2 photos 658 comments

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"Don't punish yourself," she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness too. That was writing."
--Markus Zusak, "The Book Thief"

Jade.I.Am ELITE, Fishers, Indiana
214 articles 14 photos 1159 comments

Favorite Quote:
“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski

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By rand0mteenager SILVER
Yonkers, New York
rand0mteenager SILVER, Yonkers, New York
8 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
I like books more than people

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By migwam ELITE
Tumwater, Washington
migwam ELITE, Tumwater, Washington
240 articles 20 photos 151 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." --Marcus Aurelius