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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
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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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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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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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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But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like forever. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
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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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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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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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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.
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Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.
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When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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