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I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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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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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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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
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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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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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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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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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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? -346
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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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