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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Smart
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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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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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I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?
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The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
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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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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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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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Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.
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I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
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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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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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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.
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The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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