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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
Geek
Witty
Finds
Incredible
Smile
Something

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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?
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I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)
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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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Was the fun in the fall?
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The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
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Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
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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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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)
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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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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time
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The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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