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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
Librarian
Rumor
Angel
Devil
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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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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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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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
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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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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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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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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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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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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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