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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
Today
Influences
Creates
Yesterday
Thus
Tomorrow
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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies
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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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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
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Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
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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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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.
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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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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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Was the fun in the fall?
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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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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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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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