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5388 teenagers are arrested
4219 teenagers contract a sexually transmitted disease
3610 teenagers are assaulted
2861 teenagers drop out of school
1377 teenagers become pregnant
1106 teenagers have an abortion
1000 teenagers try alcohol
500 teenagers start using drugs
420 teenagers are arrested for drug use
6 teenagers commit suicide
all of this happens in
1 day.
life changes in the blink of an eye. question is, can you keep up?




Quotes I Like...


every time she laughs, she hopes he is watching...not so he'll see she's happy, but so maybe, just maybe, he will fall for her smile just as hard as she fell for his.


behind every smile is a hurting heart,
behind every laugh I'm falling apart,
look closely and you will see,
the girl i am...isn't me.


I wrote your name on a piece of paper, but by accident I threw it away.
I wrote your name on my hand, but it washed away.
I wrote your name in the sand, but the waves whispered it away.
I wrote your name in my heart, and forever it will stay.


loving someone isn't stupid...thinking that they'll love you back is



hate is a four letter word...love is a four letter lie



when i saw him...i liked him
when i liked him...i kissed him
when i kissed him...i loved him
when i loved him...i lost him


Love me now, love me never,
but if you love me, love me forever.


Who do you turn to when the only person
in the world that can stop you from crying,
is exactly the one making you cry?


Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.


Love, true love, is that which can give the most
without asking or demanding anything in return.
- Mazie Hammond


how can I forget you
when you're always on my mind?
How can I not want you
when you're all I want inside? How can I let you go
when I can't see us apart?
How can I not love you
when you control my heart?


i cry because I know
he doesn't feel the way I do.
I cry because I think of
how pathetic I am,
and I cry because
I think I'll be crying forever.


somedays i wish I had never met you
because then I could go to bed at night not
knowing there was someone like you out there


the saddest love is to love someone,
to know that they still want you,
but the circumstances don't let you have them.


the worst thing a guy can do
is let a girl fall in love when
he doesn't intend to catch her fall.


love is the ultimate trip


a friend bails you out of jail.
a real friend is sitting beside you saying "that was awesome!"


nothing says "oops" like a wall of flames


last night i lay there looking up at the stars, and i wondered "where the hell is my ceiling?!"


anata wa widu des ka?! (are you on weed?!)

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil
-Hannah Arendt

standing in thr middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides
-margaret thatcher

you may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no results
-mahatma ghandhi

i have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love
-mother teresa

you can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. you can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
-naguib mahfouz

a friend is one of those people who i know will always be there for me. no matter what kind of mood i'm in...
-sarah michelle gellar

a few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth
-alex carrel

there's nothing like helping others to remind you that you're not the only one in the world with problems.
-michelle kwan

happinesss doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends soley upon what you think.
-dale carnegie

security is mostly a superstition. it does not exist in nature...life either is a daring adventure or nothing
-helen keller

i seem to recall that as being one of god's "i'd rather you didn't lest i have to smite you into ash' commandments
-A great and terrible beauty by Libba Bray page 76

then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it, and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute
-Cry, the beloved country by alan paton p. 40

Happy the eyes that can close
-cry the beloved country by alan paton p. 40

it was this world alone that was certain
-cry the beloved country by alan paton p.44

the tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
-cry the beloved country by alan paton p. 56


Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
-cry the beloved country p. 71

god be thanked that there is a beloved one who can lift up the heart in suffering, that one can play with a child in the face of such misery
-cry the beloved country by alan paton p. 94

and were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do
-cry the beloved country by alan paton p. 100who can lie peacefully abed, while the darkness holds some secret? what lovers can lie sweetly under the stars, when menace grows with the measure of their seclusion?
-cry the beloved country p. 106

but there is no equality in church or state
-cry the beloved country by alan paton p. 110

and our lives will shrink, but they shall be the lives of superior beings; and we shall live with fear, but at least it will not be a fear of the unknown.
-cry the beloved country by alan paton p. 111

cry, teh beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear.
-cry, the beloved country by alan paton p. 111