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Ellen Hopkins Biography

Ellen Louise Hopkins (born March 26, 1955) is a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience.

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Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

Church, Faith, Mosque, Mosques, Religion, World

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

Belief, Kind, Merciful, Nice, Power, Unshakable

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

Blatantly, Fall, Feet, Fun, Purposely, Treacherous

Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.

Sometimes, Who I Am

In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing 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.

Hands, Knowing, Long, Okay, Realizing, Trick

Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace. I am a snowflake. A wisp of eiderdown, liberated from gravity. My body is light. Ephemeral. My head is light. I want to sway beneath the weight of air, dizzy with thought. Light filters through my closed eyelids. The sun, chasing shadows, tells me I'm not afloat in dreams.

Dream, Shadows, Sway, Trapped, Wings, Winter

I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Baby, Become, Daddy, Evil, Fashioned

I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.

Boy, Boys, Fell, Side, Sides, Track

The love of her life dissolved into dreams.

Dissolved, Dream, Dreams, Life, Love

My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

Memories, Past, Place, Create, Happiest

It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.

Forever, Heart, Kissing, Maybe, Pretty, Remember

I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.

Book, Books, Deep, Important, Inspiring, Writing

Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?

Risk, Someone You Love, Favors, Favor, Love

He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

Boy, Boys, Different, Like, Nice, Two

Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the same old me? There is comfort in the tried and true. Breaking ground might uncover a sinkhole, one impossible to climb out of. And setting sail in uncharted waters might mean capsizing into a sea monster's jaws. Easier to turn my back on these things than to try tjem and fail. And yet, a whisper insists I need to know if they are or aren't integral to me. Status quo is a swamp. And stagnation is slow death.

Fail, Ground, Mean, Sail, Sea, Uncharted Waters

I can see why she feels left behind. Maybe even discarded. Is that why she refuses to accept my love and return it? Afraid that love doesn't last? Doesn't really exist? Afraid if her own father can withdraw his love (or at least the manifestation of his love), that maybe she somehow isn't worthy of the emotion?

Afraid, Father, Feels, His Love, Lasts, Maybe

Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession.

Beneath, Crush, Love Is, Weight

You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.

Away, Hear, Scar, Scars, Someone You Love, Want

Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.

Hands, Heart, Interwoven, Meeting, Touching

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

Poetry, Sepia, Stories, Told, Would Be

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