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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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Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
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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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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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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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Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
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You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.
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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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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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I know I can't stay here forever
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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?
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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
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