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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Friend
Voice
Best
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My happiest memories have no place in the past they are those I have yet to create.
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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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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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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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Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?
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Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.
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You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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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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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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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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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.
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I know I can't stay here forever
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