“I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my, church, not in my home, not in my skin.” — Ellen Hopkins Angry Copy Share Image
“When you live afraid of your neighbor, the monster you should most walk in terror of thrives.” — Ellen Hopkins Fear Copy Share Image
“There's a lesson here, and that is I have to find happiness inside myself before I try to partner again.” — Ellen Hopkins Happiness Copy Share Image
Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you — Ellen Hopkins Carols Copy Share Image
She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character. — Ellen Hopkins Character Copy Share Image
Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
This is unstoppable, no holds barred. This is beautiful. Crazy. A beginning. Betrayal. Addictive. Aggressive. Alive. This is something to be afraid… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don't love him, & he definitely doesn't love me. Still, he semi-fills a gaping black hole inside me. That place wants… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how… — Ellen Hopkins Change Copy Share Image
Do you know how beautiful you are?' I shook my head 'I'm not. But you make me fell like I am.' I… — Ellen Hopkins Beautiful Copy Share Image
And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers'… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
crawling up into daddy's lap when dad was still DADDY nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again! — Ellen Hopkins Defiance Copy Share Image
The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain. — Ellen Hopkins Fear Copy Share Image
“You shine like the Milky Way. Now, there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have… — Ellen Hopkins Light Copy Share Image
“With you, I am Adam. And you are my beautiful Eve. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks… — Ellen Hopkins Brain Copy Share Image
Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing. — Ellen Hopkins Breathing Copy Share Image
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. — Ellen Hopkins Heart Copy Share Image
“I've never known him as a civilian. Never known him as just a regular guy, something I'm not sure he--or any warrior--can… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my… — Ellen Hopkins Books 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 Mom Copy Share Image
“My grandmother used to say God gives us drought years-years drained of happiness-to prepare us for bounteous times. I'm more than ready… — Ellen Hopkins Drought Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn't dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide… — Ellen Hopkins Thoughts Copy Share Image
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins Ashes Copy Share Image
With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Our kiss eclipses all others, real, imagine, dreamed of. It is the beginning of time, it is the end of the ages.” — Ellen Hopkins Kiss Copy Share Image
Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love? — Ellen Hopkins Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“And I did say excuse me, with my butt. Apparently you don’t speak “rectum.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
