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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.
Ellen Hopkins
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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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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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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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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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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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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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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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