And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
Ellen HopkinsAnd the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.
Ellen Hopkins...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.
Ellen HopkinsCrank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)
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