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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Dies
Easy
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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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Girls are impossible to satisfy. Not every girl. Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
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Would I drown saving him?
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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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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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Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
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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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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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