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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? -346
Ellen Hopkins
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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
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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 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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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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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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You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
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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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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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