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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
Needs
Love

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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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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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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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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
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Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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