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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
Good
Always
Life
Ones
Full
Choices
Make

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Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.
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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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Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
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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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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
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Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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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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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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I know I can't stay here forever
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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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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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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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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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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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