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

Ellen Hopkins

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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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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?
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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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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
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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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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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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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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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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
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