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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
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Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
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Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.
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When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.
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