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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Take
Shining
Rest
Keep
Light
Care

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Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
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Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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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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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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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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Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.
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You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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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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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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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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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.
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Was the fun in the fall?
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