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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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When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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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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You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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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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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?
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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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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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I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
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Would I drown saving him?
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Girls are impossible to satisfy. Not every girl. Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
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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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