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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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Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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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 am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.
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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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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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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like forever. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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