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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
Speechless
Render
Words
Someone
Power
Heart
Soothe

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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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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
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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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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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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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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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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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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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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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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.
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The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.
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Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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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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