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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
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Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.
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Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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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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You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
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Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.
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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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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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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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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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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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