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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
Ellen Hopkins
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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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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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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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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.
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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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Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
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I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.
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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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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)
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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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Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.
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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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