Ellen Hopkins Quotes

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

~ Ellen Hopkins

I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

~ Ellen Hopkins

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

~ Ellen Hopkins

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.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Forgiveness isn’t my best thing.Easier staying pissed. But I’mtired of being pissed all the time.Tired of feeling hurt by stuff thatcan never be fixed because it isan indelible part of the past.

~ Ellen Hopkins

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.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Dream bigger before you can't remember to dream at all.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn’t dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open

~ Ellen Hopkins

Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn't dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open?

~ Ellen Hopkins

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.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

~ Ellen Hopkins

I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?

~ Ellen Hopkins

...what good would it do toshutter your windows, neverdream of rainbows or find hopein promises? Why choose to walk awayrather than hold your groundand fight for love?

~ Ellen Hopkins

Am I more afraidOf taking a chance andlearning I'm somebodyI don't know, or of risking new territory,only to find I'm the sameold me? There is comfortin the tried and true.Breaking groundmight uncover a sinkhole,one impossible to climb outof. And setting sail inuncharted watersmight mean capsizing intoa sea monster's jaws.Easier to turn my back onthese thingsthan to try tjem and fail.And yet, a whisper insistsI need to know if they are oraren't integral to me.Status quo is a swamp.And stagnation is slow death.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

~ Ellen Hopkins

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

~ Ellen Hopkins

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

~ Ellen Hopkins

Funny thing about the monster.The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?

~ Ellen Hopkins

I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my,church, not in my home, not in my skin.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Empty is the perfect state of being. Nothing inside to anchor you. Nothing inside to chain you down, keep you from living your dreams. Empty, almost weightless, you are an eyelash afloat on a blink of breeze. You can rise about tension and worry, loosed from the grip of gravity. Adrift in thermal lift, you ride the wing of freedom and soar. Empty, you are Eve in Eden. Empty, you are what you were meant to be.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit.

~ 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.

~ Ellen Hopkins

I blamed the Bible,when its words were not at fault,only the way they’re interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws,cutting others off at the knees.

~ Ellen Hopkins

I don’t know449that much about the Bible, other than it waswritten thousands of years ago, which dilutesits relevance. However, I know its faithfulfollowers tend to cherry-pick verses to suittheir needs, the same way they cherry-pickwords or scenes from other books to labelobscene.

~ Ellen Hopkins

I keep hearing that love isn't a logical emotion. Should I worry about that?

~ Ellen Hopkins

I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

~ Ellen Hopkins

Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us, if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away?

~ Ellen Hopkins

We kissed for aboutthe thousandth time,No promises,no demands,Just solid rebuildingof shattered trust.

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One kiss, I was totally hooked.

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Our kiss eclipses all others, real, imagine, dreamed of. It is the beginning of time, it is the end of the ages.

~ Ellen Hopkins

For a long while. Finally she says, I don't believe in love. Not sure it really exists, but even if it does for some people, it won't for me. She is serious. Then she lightens up. But, hey, if you think you love me, cool.

~ Ellen Hopkins