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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
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You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
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Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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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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Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.
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I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies
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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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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
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Would I drown saving him?
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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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Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?
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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.
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