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The Darkness Between the Stars
By Adeline GOLD
Las Vegas, Nevada

A breeze rocks the hammock in which I lay in, disturbing the calm that had fallen over the backyard. The comforting light of the house is interrupted by dancing shadows, wisps of w...
Adeline GOLD, Las Vegas, Nevada
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"Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."

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The Birth of a Goal
By Allen_Z BRONZE
Palatine, Illinois
Allen_Z BRONZE, Palatine, Illinois
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Bring Imagination to Life
By ClaireL.Lockhart BRONZE
Princeton, New Jersey
ClaireL.Lockhart BRONZE, Princeton, New Jersey
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Mexican Heritage
By Anonymous
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Confidence
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Moving On
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Live from New York!
By breannaeelizabeth BRONZE
North Waterboro, Maine
breannaeelizabeth BRONZE, North Waterboro, Maine
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" -Eleanor Roosevelt

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“If you don’t step it up, you’ll get replaced in the relay.”
By Anonymous
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Butterfly
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Storytelling Origins
By thesplatterink BRONZE
Westfield, New Jersey
thesplatterink BRONZE, Westfield, New Jersey
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&quot;I know what I&#039;m going to do tomorrow, and the next day, and the year after that!&quot;<br /> -- George Bailey, It&#039;s a Wonderful Life<br /> <br /> &quot;[Love and Art] are both simply forms of imitation.&quot; - Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Gray<br /> <br /> &quot;A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.&quot; - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas<br /> <br /> &quot;Rosebud&quot;<br /> <br /> &ldquo;Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an&#039; tho&#039; a cloud&#039;s shape nor hue nor size don&#039;t stay the same, it&#039;s still a cloud an&#039; so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud&#039;s blowed from or who the soul&#039;ll be &#039;morrow? Only Sonmi the east an&#039; the west an&#039; the compass an&#039; the atlas, yay, only the atlas o&#039; clouds.&rdquo; - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas<br /> <br /> &quot;If you want to know what a man&#039;s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.&quot; - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<br /> <br /> &ldquo;The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.&rdquo; - Alain de Botton<br /> <br /> &ldquo;When you don&rsquo;t have many friends and you don&rsquo;t have a social life you&rsquo;re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There&rsquo;s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you&rsquo;re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.&rdquo; - Tim Burton

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