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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Sure
Anything
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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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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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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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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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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