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Impulse
Ellen Hopkins
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“Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.”
“Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.”
“Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are vague and yesterday seems to come tied up in ribbons of pain. Happiness? I look for it intead in today, where memory is something I can still touch, still rely on. I find it in the smiles of new friends, the hope blossoming inside. My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.”
“It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.”
“Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?”
“Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment.”
“I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.”
“The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.”
“Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over”
“No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment and I wasn't ready for that moment to end.”
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love, inspirational-love, truth, live-in-the-moment
