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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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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
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Ellen Louise Hopkins
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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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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
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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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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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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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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through
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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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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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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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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? -346
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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