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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Incredible
Smile
Something
Geek
Witty
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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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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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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Girls are impossible to satisfy. Not every girl. Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
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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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Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.
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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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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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Would I drown saving him?
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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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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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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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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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