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You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Deserve
Good
Things

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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
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Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.
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Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?
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No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
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Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time
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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
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My happiest memories have no place in the past they are those I have yet to create.
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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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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
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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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