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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
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Choices
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Good
Always
Life
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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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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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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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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
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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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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
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I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.
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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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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
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You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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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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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
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