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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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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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I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
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The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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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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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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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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Imperfections create character.
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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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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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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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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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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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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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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 have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
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Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
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