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

Ellen Hopkins

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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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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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Imperfections create character.
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Was the fun in the fall?
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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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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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