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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
Character
Imperfections
Imperfection
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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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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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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
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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 open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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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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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.
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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 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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