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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Shimmer
Capture
Sunshine
Littles
Best
Little

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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.
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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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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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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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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
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Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
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Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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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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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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