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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Feelings
Back
Hard
Bullshit
Sometimes
Mostly
Life
Turn
Feeling
Turns
Funny

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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
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Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?
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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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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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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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Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
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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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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
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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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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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