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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Love
Closes
Opens
Door
Window
Doors
Control

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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
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i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
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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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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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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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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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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.
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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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The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
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