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

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

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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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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.
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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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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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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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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 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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Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
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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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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.
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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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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
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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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