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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
Devil
Half
Bookish
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Librarian
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Angel

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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.
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But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like forever. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
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Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?
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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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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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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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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'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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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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Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.
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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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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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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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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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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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