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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
Young
Truly
Best
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Books
Future
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Hope
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Adults

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I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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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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It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)
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Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.
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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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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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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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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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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
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They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
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