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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Silhouette
Silhouettes
Rarely
Believed
Seen

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It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)
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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.
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I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.
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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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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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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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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.
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They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
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