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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
Every
Measurable
Lows
Equal
High

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Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time
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The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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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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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
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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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What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
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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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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.
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I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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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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Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
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