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But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

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Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?

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I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

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When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never b...more

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Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drun...more

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Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she becam...more

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A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

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The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.

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I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a s...more

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Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

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The marks we leave are too often scars.

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I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never...more

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Thanks for not trying to see me when I looked like hell.”“To be fair, you still look pretty bad.

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You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,” he said.