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Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Infinity
Reached
Touch
Ever
Life

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I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
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I know I can't stay here forever
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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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, 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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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.
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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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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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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.
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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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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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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
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