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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
Gamble
Find
Life

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You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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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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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.
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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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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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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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Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.
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I don't love him, & he definitely doesn't love me. Still, he semi-fills a gaping black hole inside me. That place wants love, maybe even needs love, but love is something Im pretty sure doesn't exist.
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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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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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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.
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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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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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