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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time
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You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
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Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?
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Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)
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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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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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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
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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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It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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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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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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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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