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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Incredible
Create
Perfect
Character
Imperfections
Imperfection

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Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.
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Girls are impossible to satisfy. Not every girl. Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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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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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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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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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
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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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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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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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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
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