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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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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Worthy
Wish
Running
Tell
Need
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Love

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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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My happiest memories have no place in the past they are those I have yet to create.
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I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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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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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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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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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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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.
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Was the fun in the fall?
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like forever. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)
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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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