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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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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Someone
Power
Heart
Soothe
Speechless
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Words

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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
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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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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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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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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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Imperfections create character.
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
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Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.
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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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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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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.
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Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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