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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Feel
Feels
Good
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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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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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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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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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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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Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)
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Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.
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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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But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
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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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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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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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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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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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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? -346
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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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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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