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You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Never
Surface
Like
Ocean
Headfirst
People
Lucky
Dive
Pretty
Depths
Beauty
Fell
Women
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Depth
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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
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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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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?
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The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me
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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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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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