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When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Hurt
Someone
Even
Love
Deserve

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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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Would I drown saving him?
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)
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The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
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i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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