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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Sneak
Insanity
Away
Change
Littles
Little
Way

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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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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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Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?
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I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
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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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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
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What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
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Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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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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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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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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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.
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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
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