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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
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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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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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.
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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.
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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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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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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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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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