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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Energy
Cannot
Something
Altered
Requires
Dare
Anger
Waste

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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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Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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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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Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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