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

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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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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
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You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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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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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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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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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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Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.
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When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through
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I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
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You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me
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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
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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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