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

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Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.
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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks
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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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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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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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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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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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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
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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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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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