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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
Novelist
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Long Beach
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Ellen Louise Hopkins
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I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.
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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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Would I drown saving him?
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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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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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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
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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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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
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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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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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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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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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Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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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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Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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