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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Monsters
Meet
Wanted
Monster

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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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Girls are impossible to satisfy. Not every girl. Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
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Would I drown saving him?
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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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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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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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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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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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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.
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Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.
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But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
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