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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
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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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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Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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Would I drown saving him?
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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
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Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.
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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
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But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like forever. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.
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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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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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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
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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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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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