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I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Loses
Maybe
Back
Mean
Mind
Purposely
Gonna
Okay
Lose

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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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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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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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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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Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
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