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

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Sure
Anything
Thing

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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
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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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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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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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Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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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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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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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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