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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.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
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Long Beach
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Ellen Louise Hopkins
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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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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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
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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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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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