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Feb 12, 2014 04:51PM
Winning. Alienated
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EXAMINATION DAY.I slide the cool material of my shirt over the five long, jagged scars on my arm and examine myself in the reflector. ~ Independent Study
"Get rid of that body now or my men will mutiny!", the captain yelled from the other side of the door.- Cleopatra's Moon
My art teacher says that a real artist bleeds for her craft, but he never told us that blood can become your medium, can take on a life of its own and shape your art in vile and gruesome ways. ~ Unhinged
"The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, although I have no idea what the function of either actually is." (2nd sentence) ~ Anna and the French Kiss
"What woke me was the insistent beep-beep-beep of the little machine that was monitoring his dying heart." ~ Fall From Grace
" 'No!' The scream tore from my lips as I raced into the bathroom, slipping and falling into the puddle of bloody water slowly spreading across the tiled floor." ~ Tell Me Why
Moeder Maria vol genade, ik ben aangenomen op het Hervormd Lyceum Zuid, godverdomme hé. - De belofte van Pisa
If every problem had as clear and quick an answer as those on the Mathletes exam, I would have been winning in life. - Solving for Ex
When I was a sophomore in high school, I enrolled in a Western philosophy class to fulfill graduation requirement. - Tandem
Everyone deserves one grand adventure, that one time in their life that we always get to point back to and say, "Then...then I was really living." - Finding It
Ruby said I'd never drown - not in a deep ocean, not by shipwreck, not even by falling drunk into someone's bottomless backyard swimming pool. - Imaginary Girls
De avond voordat Anne Amelia Richardson doodbloedde langs de kant van een stoffige weg buiten de stad lag ik onder de sterrenhemel dood te gaan van ellende in de laadbak van een pick-up. - Anne Amelia is er niet meer
"I AM THINKING OF AN APPLE WHEN THE STREETCAR HITS AND MY LEG SEVERS and my ribs crumble and my arm is no longer an arm but something unrecognizable, wet and red." ~ Eve & Adam
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
HE COMES DOWN THE ROAD IN HIS CAMARO SLIDING left to right on the freshly oiled gravel and skidding to a stop in front of my house. - Nobody But Us
We rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to stare frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be.- Hollow CityMy goodness, that was a long first sentence!!
In een vrouwenblad las ik de kop: 'Jij en je zelfgekozen familie'. - Opstaan, aankleden, niet doodgaan
If you were going to give a gold medal to the least delightful person on Earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you didn't give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway. ~ The Austere Academy
Ik weet nog dat ik in de sneeuw lag, een plekje van rode warmte dat afkoelde, omringd door wolven. (dutch) Shiver
Ordinary people don't give much credence to those flashes of movement that catch briefly in the corner of their eyes. -- Brush of Shade.
1. Elaine O'Dea, am going to tell you two definite, absolute, indisputable truths. - The Truth About Alice
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