Samantha Schutz
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Percy wakes me (fourteen)
So, have we solved the secret of happiness?
Fireworks. Snowflakes. 
he placed his hands
A POCKET-SIZED GIRL
Had he and I but met
I have an iron lung, and the dog keeps me from getting too close to magnets.
Do you think I'm pretty?”
it's not his body
He responded a few minutes later.
I that in heill was and gladnèss
The captain put his fingers to his temples as if he had a headache. “So, let me get this straight.... 
Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."
One day he said, "I'll tell this town
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
Thanks,” I muttered and added under my breath, “Douchebag.”
How would you like it if I said to you, 'It kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit bea... 
This tiger is sprawled
'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're goin... 
It has rained for five days
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; 
You’ll have sweet dreams?” he asked quietly and sounding like he cared, a lot. 
I walked across an empty land
This Stone
You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.”
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love.<... 
Life is but a Weaving” (the Tapestry Poem)
When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,
Now he felt temper snapping at the nerves. “If you can’t be comfortable in the house while I’m... 
She had blue skin,
Am I making something worth while?
You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?"
After a while Mary said, “Zsadist?”
Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?"
He sipped again, more deeply. “Is this an interrogation, Lieutenant?” It was the smile in his vo... 
Why did god create a dual universe?
Two of us in this room, Ace, two keycards," he said and my eyes went to him. When they did, he jerke... 
Hey," Trenton said, breathless and sweaty.
Sure. Whatever. She’s all yours.”
Start by pulling him out of the fire and
~Posters with torn edges hanging from rotten walls~ 
Hello? This is Clary Fairchild.”
The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) 
He is sorry-
Tell me a truth, Senna.“
Plastic ware," he said slowly, "like knives and forks and spoons?"
This is what it's all been about with you," he said in an even tone. "All the fear, all
When I approach a child 
What do you want to show me?"
Yes Yes
No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno... 
Come to the edge," he said.
I gave, at first, attention close; 
You have been to hell, Ketut?"
Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those d... 
BLACK AND WHITE
No, my dog used to gaze at me,
Think about a good memory, she whispers in my mind. Remember a moment when you loved him.<... 
Maxon lowered his lips to mine and gave me the faintest whisper of a kiss.
Damn it. What are we exactly calling a 'masculine problem'? Did he have trouble running the flag up?... 
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... 
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depressi... 
Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my l... 
Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a... 
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school ... 
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly de... 
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But w... 
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society. 
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film... 
I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do. 
I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts ... 
It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring. 