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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
Ellen Hopkins
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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
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Long Beach
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Ellen Louise Hopkins
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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
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Imperfections create character.
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I don't love him, & he definitely doesn't love me. Still, he semi-fills a gaping black hole inside me. That place wants love, maybe even needs love, but love is something Im pretty sure doesn't exist.
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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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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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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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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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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 problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
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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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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.
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Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
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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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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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