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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Cry
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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
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Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
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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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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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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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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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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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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.
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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
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I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.
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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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