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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
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Long Beach
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Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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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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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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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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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.
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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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Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.
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Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?
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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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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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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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My happiest memories have no place in the past they are those I have yet to create.
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Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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