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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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Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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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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Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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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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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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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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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
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Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?
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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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