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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
Heart
Soothe
Speechless
Render
Words
Someone
Power

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But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.
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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
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Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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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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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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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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I know I can't stay here forever
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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