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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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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?
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Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.
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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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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
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Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.
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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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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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Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
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But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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