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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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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?
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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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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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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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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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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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Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
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