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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
Voice
Best
Find
Friend

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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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I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.
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Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.
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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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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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Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
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Would I drown saving him?
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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)
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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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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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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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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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Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
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