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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
Yeah
Smart
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Getting
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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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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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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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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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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.
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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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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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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.
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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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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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When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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