“It’s not even my birthday But he want to lick the icing off I know you want it in the worst way Can’t wait to blow my candles out He want that cake, cake, Cake, cake, cake, cake, cake Cake, cake, cake, cake, cake Cake, cake, cake” – Rihanna’s “Birthday Cake,” 2012 “Oh, shake shake […]
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“It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.” – Ponyboy referencing Cherry in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton My bounty is as boundless as
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“People are more than just the way they look.” – Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time “[Stanley’s] father had been trying to figure out a way to recycle old sneakers, and suddenly a pair of sneakers fell on top of him, seemingly out of nowhere, like a gift from God” – Louis Sachar, Holes Some
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man I’d sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town He’d tousle my hair and say son take a good look around
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