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Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
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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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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Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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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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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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Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?
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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
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Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
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Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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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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Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
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