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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
Render
Words
Someone
Power
Heart
Soothe
Speechless

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Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.
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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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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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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
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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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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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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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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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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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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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