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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

Ellen Hopkins

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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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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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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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Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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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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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
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