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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
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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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Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
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Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
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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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Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
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I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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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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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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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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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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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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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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