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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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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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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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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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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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I know I can't stay here forever
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But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
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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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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.
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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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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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I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.
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