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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
Becomes
Game
Choices
Taken
Games
Life
Survival
Choice

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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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Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
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The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me
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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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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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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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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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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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Would I drown saving him?
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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