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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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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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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.
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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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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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I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
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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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My happiest memories have no place in the past they are those I have yet to create.
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Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.
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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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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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I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)
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Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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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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