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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Running
Monsters
Stop

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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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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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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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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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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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Would I drown saving him?
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i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
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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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Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.
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Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
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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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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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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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Imperfections create character.
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