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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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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Writing
Worlds
Years
Anyway
Like
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Poetry
Fiction
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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
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Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.
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I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.
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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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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?
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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.
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Was the fun in the fall?
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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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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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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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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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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