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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

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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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Bookish
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Librarian
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Devil

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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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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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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
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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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