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When all else fails, dream bigger.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Else
Dream
Fails
Bigger
Failing

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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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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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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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Was the fun in the fall?
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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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