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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
Creates
Yesterday
Thus
Tomorrow
Influence
Today
Influences

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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.
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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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Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.
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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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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
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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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Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.
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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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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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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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Would I drown saving him?
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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
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They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
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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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