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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
Choices
Taken
Games
Life
Survival
Choice
Becomes
Game

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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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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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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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I know I can't stay here forever
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Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.
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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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You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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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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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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