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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Life
Survival
Choice
Becomes
Game
Choices
Taken
Games

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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
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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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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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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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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.
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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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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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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
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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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