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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Puppets
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Religion

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Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
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Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
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Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?
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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
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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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You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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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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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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