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Every high has an equal, measurable low.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Measurable
Lows
Equal
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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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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.
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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
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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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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to 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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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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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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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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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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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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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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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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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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