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

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

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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
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The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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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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Would I drown saving him?
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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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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? -346
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Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
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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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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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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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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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Imperfections create character.
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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