128 Quotes & Sayings By Ellen Hopkins

You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me. Ellen Hopkins

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. Ellen Hopkins

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky. Ellen Hopkins

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. Ellen Hopkins

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 feelcheap for doingexactly what they beg for. The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true. The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricotwhen the peach blushes and bruises. These things make me believe God's a man after all. Ellen Hopkins

Did you ever, when you were little, endure your parents’ warnings, then wait for them to leave the room, pry loose protective covers and consider inserting some metal object into an electrical outlet? Did you wonder if for once you might light up the room? When you were big enough to cross the street on your own, did you ever wait for a signal, hear the frenzied approach of a fire truck and feel like stepping out in front of it? Did you wonder just how far that rocket ride might take you? When you were almost grown, did you ever sit in a bubble bath, perspiration pooling, notice a blow dryer plugged in within easy reach, and think about dropping it into the water? Did you wonder if the expected rush might somehow fail you? And now, 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

HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so W H Ypush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is W H E R E you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway, W H E Ndid creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person W H Olives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you -WHATis perfect. Ellen Hopkins

A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane. Ellen Hopkins

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces? . Ellen Hopkins

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not. Ellen Hopkins

Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize. Ellen Hopkins

Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead. Ellen Hopkins

I love the way she feels inthe curve of my arm. I loveher unpretentious beauty, her intelligence, her nerve. But could I ever love her? The concept of falling in loveis completely foreign, something I can’t bring myself to accept. Her hair pillows my cheek and her hand on my leg is warm. I care about you, Conner, and I hate to see you hurting. I want to respond but can’tfind the pretty words I need. Ellen Hopkins

The things they say! A truck driver would blush. I would never talk that wayto Trevor he walks on water. I want him to think I do too. For a while, he did, or at leasthe pretended to. I did things with TrevorI wouldn't dare to confessto anyone–things I didn'tknow anyone did. But he wanted me to, so I did. That's what you dowhen you love someone, right? Ellen Hopkins

Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death. Ellen Hopkins

The Screamingflashed me back to a timewhen mom and dad were still togetherif you could call miles apart together. Ellen Hopkins

A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept. Ellen Hopkins

...Every word an author writes causes ripples, like tossing a stone into a pond. And you don't know where they'll go, or who they'll touch, or when they might come back to you. I think everything you do is kind of like that, too. Ellen Hopkins

Sometimes, you don't wake up. But if you happento, you know thingswill never bethe same. Ellen Hopkins

We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly. Ellen Hopkins

Aloneeverything changes. Some might call it distorted realitybut it's exactly the place I need to be. Ellen Hopkins

When You Weren't Looking...why....Can't you...care...more...about...me. Ellen Hopkins

Might as Well Laugh...remember...when...Life...made...sense Ellen Hopkins

Possibilities...in the closet...itching...to break out...but afraid of...the fallout Ellen Hopkins

Faces...I...don't...know...the real...me Ellen Hopkins

Have to Find...life...is...a–...gamble...after ...all. Ellen Hopkins

I'll Stay...leave...me....I'll...follow...you. Ellen Hopkins

It was the exact oppositefor me. At first all Iwanted was sex with her, but soon I wanted more. More sex, yes, in unusualplaces, and all different kinds. But that wasn’t all. I wantedher to fill the empty spacesleft by a father who neveronce praised me, ‘friends’ whoused me, an ice princess momwho raised me with glass kisses. Ellen Hopkins

Home...Home....the word,. ..has...no...meaning Ellen Hopkins

Once...Why...lie?...when...truth is...the easier path Ellen Hopkins

Fireworks. Snowflakes. Sunstroke and frostbite. It was all that I could ask for and completely unexpected. I expected demands. He gifted me with tenderness. I expected ego. He let me experiment. I expected disrespect. He called me beautiful. I expected him to expect perfection. He taught me all I needed to know. Ellen Hopkins

In a woman's womb another chance to makethe world a better place. Ellen Hopkins

How far we claim to have come - accepting all men as created equal. Gender being the requisite qualifier, as women are not reviewed in the same fashion - their fashion hopefully better suited to the bedroom than the boardroom. And, you know, homosexuals not really being 'men, ' cannot be judged equivalent to their stiffer-wristed brethren. On religion, well, some Christians are willing to make room for a Jew or two in their inner circles. But Mecca-facing prayer must be met with flaming crosses. Close your eyes to the details, the big picture can still be viewed through rose-colored glass. But go any distance beyond the rhetoric, truth becomes a shadowed lens. . Ellen Hopkins

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

Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the person who first turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Never allow an enemy to see weakness in you. Ellen Hopkins

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

LightThat's how I feel-like the winter-fringedbreeze might scoopme up into its wings, flyaway with me trappedin its feathered embrace. I am a snowflake. A wisp of eiderdown, liberatedfrom gravity. My bodyis light. Ephemeral.My head is light. I want to swaybeneaththe weight of air, dizzy with thought. Light filters throughmy closed eyelids. The sun, chasing shadows, tells me I'm notafloat in dreams. 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 afraid Of taking a chance andlearning I'm somebody I 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 insists I 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. Ellen Hopkins

One kiss, I was totally hooked. Ellen Hopkins

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

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.. Ellen Hopkins

In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to. Ellen Hopkins

Some people Are worthy of a bullet straightto the heart because that is wherecruelty evolves into evil. Somehumans aren't human at all, despite how they appear. Humanity is what lives insidepeople, harbored beneath skin, flesh, and bone. Ellen Hopkins

I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever". Maybe because forever is such a scary place. Ellen Hopkins

Crawling up into daddy's lapwhen dad was still D A D D Ynodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heart L I S T E N I N Gto the thump..thumpsomewhere beneath muscleand breastbone I remember his armstheir sublime E N C I R C L I N Gand the shawdow of his voice" I love you, little girl. Put away your bad dreams. Daddy's here" I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that came H O M Efrom work everyday and insteadof picking me up, chased me farfaraway . Ellen Hopkins

But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liablefor my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions Ellen Hopkins

I've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture, no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love. Ellen Hopkins

It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves. Ellen Hopkins

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. Ellen Hopkins

I think it’s easyto confuse love with other things. Lust, for one. Need, for another Ellen Hopkins

I'm afraid it will never be perfect again. I am indelibly stained. Forever redefined, but blurred around the edges. Ellen Hopkins

When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin? Ellen Hopkins

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear. Ellen Hopkins