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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Afraid
Everybody
Maybe
Everyone
Else

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Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
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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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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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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)
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When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.
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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
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Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?
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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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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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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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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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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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