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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Ghosts
Scare
Ghost
Flesh
Blood
People

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The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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Imperfections create character.
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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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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
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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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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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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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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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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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