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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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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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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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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?
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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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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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Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
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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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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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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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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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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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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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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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