Ellen Hopkins - Burned (2006)

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Do you know how beautiful you are?' I shook my head 'I'm not. But you make me fell like I am.' I wanted to be beautiful. To him. For him. I didn't care how anybody else saw me. Only Ethan.

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In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

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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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You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, or the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who could crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.

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Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way. Now there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have to give it away. Keep on shining Pattyn. And when the right young man comes along, he'll love you all the more for giftin' this sad planet with your light.

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God is love," she said. "And he respects love, whether it's between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends. I don't think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Love with all your heart. Don't hurt others, and help those in need. That is all you need to know. And don't worry about heaven. If it exists, you'll be welcome.

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Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

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Face red, but brave in spite of it, Ethan offered an even smaller box. My hands shook as i opened it. Set in a gold promise ring, three small diamonds glittered. One for you, one for me, one for us, he said sweetly. I love you.

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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.

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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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Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind......but he won't.

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The not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.

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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?

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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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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

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But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.

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