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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
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Religion
Puppets
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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My happiest memories have no place in the past they are those I have yet to create.
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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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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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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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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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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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I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.
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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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