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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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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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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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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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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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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.
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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.
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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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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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The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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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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