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Ellen Hopkins

"Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize."

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"Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize."

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"I think it's easyto confuse love with other things.Lust, for one. Need, for another."
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"Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen."
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"HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, soWHYpush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree isWHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway,WHENdid creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the personWHOlives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you -WHATis perfect."
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"I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most."
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"In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing 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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"Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear."
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"Real love finds you once, if you're lucky."
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