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Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Thus
Tomorrow
Influence
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Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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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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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?
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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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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
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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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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.
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Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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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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But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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