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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
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks
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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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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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The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me
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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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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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The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.
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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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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
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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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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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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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