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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Life
Gamble
Find

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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
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Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.
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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? -346
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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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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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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