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As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Someone
Sometimes
Mean
Letting
Loving
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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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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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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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
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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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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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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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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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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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