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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Monster
Monsters
Treats
Worse
Funny
Thing
Love

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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 write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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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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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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