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Imperfections create character.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Imperfections
Imperfection
Create
Character

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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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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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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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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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Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.
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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.
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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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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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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
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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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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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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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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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As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.
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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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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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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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