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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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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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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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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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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
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Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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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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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
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Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.
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You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
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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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I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
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