The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I hope I'm never a mom. But if I am, I'll make damn sure my kids look up to me.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The best thing about my mom being such a bitch is not worrying about trying to make her proud of me.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I might have been your zygote. Your fetus. Maybe even your off-spring. But I have never been your son. You have no… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
One Time, One Day between Davie and Roberta , I asked my mom why she persisted, kept on having baby after baby,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I take four or five heavy steps beyond the front door and Mom comes rushing down the hallway. "Shane! What in the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I've been alone since my mom met Scott. He sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly. No nurture, no nourishment left… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
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… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
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… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
...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… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
So You Want to Know All about her. Who she really is. (Was?) Why she swerved off the high road. Hard left to nowhere,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
“I don’t belong here. I know that. But I don’t belong anywhere else, either. And that is at the heart of the black depression… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
Six months since we met up again we are inseparable, an intricate weave. No longer do I believe this is a temporary fling. More… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
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. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
