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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Sucked
Butterfly
Heart
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Famished
Nectar

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They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
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What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
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The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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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 haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.
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