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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
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Bookish
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Librarian
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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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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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When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through
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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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But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.
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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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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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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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