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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
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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
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Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
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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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Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
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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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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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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.
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Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
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The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me
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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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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
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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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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks
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