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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
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Life
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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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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.
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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)
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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 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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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 wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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