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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Easier
Path
Lying
Truth

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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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Imperfections create character.
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As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.
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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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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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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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Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.
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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
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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 have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
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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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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
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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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In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.
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