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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Conquer
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Demons
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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.
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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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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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A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
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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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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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Would I drown saving him?
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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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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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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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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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'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?
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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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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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