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Ellen Hopkins

"The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap."

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"The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap."

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"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

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"We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces."

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"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

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"A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind."

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"But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do."

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"Affected simplicity is refined imposture."

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"People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you."

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"Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth."

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"Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions."
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"What we strive for, ultimately, is love. You won't find real love because you're beautiful on the outside. It is drawn to inner beauty. Spend your energy crafting that, and you will know true love."
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"What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?"
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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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"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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"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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"There's a lesson here, and that is I have to find happiness inside myself before I try to partner again."
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"In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses.At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home.And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness."
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"Librarians were like guardian angels, with graying hair and beady eyes, magnified through reading glasses, and always read to recommend new literary windows to gaze through."
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"Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing."
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