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You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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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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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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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
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Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
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Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
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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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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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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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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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Would I drown saving him?
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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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