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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Fiction
Head
Pleases
Beauty
Nonfiction
Eye
Speaks
Pain
Ears
Speak
Essence
Soul
Poetry
Heart
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Imperfections create character.
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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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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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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.
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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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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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I know I can't stay here forever
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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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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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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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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
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Was the fun in the fall?
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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