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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
Anger
Waste
Energy
Cannot
Something
Altered
Requires
Dare

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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.
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Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.
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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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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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Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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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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