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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
Words
Someone
Power
Heart
Soothe
Speechless
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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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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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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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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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.
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The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
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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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My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
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But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like forever. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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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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I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.
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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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Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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