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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
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Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.
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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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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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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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Would I drown saving him?
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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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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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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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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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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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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 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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