Crank Quotes

Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for

~ Ellen Hopkins

My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.

~ Ruta Sepetys

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

~ Ellen Hopkins

Now I realize, of course, that many readers will acknowledge that we do in fact have these reactions, but would nevertheless write them off as mere reactions. “Our tendency to find something personally disgusting,” they will sniff, “doesn’t show that there is anything objectively wrong with it.” This is the sort of stupidity-masquerading-as-insight that absolutely pervades modern intellectual life, and it has the same source as so many other contemporary intellectual pathologies: the abandonment of the classical realism of the great Greek and Scholastic philosophers, and especially of Aristotle’s doctrine of the four causes.

~ Edward Feser

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

~ Ellen Hopkins

Life was radical right after I met the monster.Later, life became harder, complicated.Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a riptide,Walking the wrong direction in the fast lane of the freeway, Waking from sweetest dreams to find yourself in the middle of a nightmare.

~ Ellen Hopkins