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Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
Ellen Hopkins
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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
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Ellen Louise Hopkins
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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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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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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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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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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)
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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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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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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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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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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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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 not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through
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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
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