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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Conquered
Addiction
Rarely
Alone

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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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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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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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Girls are impossible to satisfy. Not every girl. Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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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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Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.
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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?
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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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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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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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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 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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