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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
Influences
Creates
Yesterday
Thus
Tomorrow
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Today

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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
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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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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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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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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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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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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?
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My happiest memories have no place in the past they are those I have yet to create.
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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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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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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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What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
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