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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
Monsters
Stop
Running

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I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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Girls are impossible to satisfy. Not every girl. Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
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Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.
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My happiest memories have no place in the past they are those I have yet to create.
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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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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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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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Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time
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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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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
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