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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Ones
Full
Choices
Make
Good
Always
Life

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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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Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
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Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?
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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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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
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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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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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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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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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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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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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The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
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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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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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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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Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?
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