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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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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I 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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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.
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Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
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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 want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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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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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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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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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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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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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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