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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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Good
Always
Life
Ones
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
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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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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
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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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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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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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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)
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Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.
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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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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
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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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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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