I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“When you live afraid of your neighbor, the monster you should most walk in terror of thrives.” — Ellen Hopkins 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 Copy Share Image
It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Secrets. We keep them to protect ourselves. We keep them to protect others. We keep them out of shame. We keep them… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I can see why she feels left behind. Maybe even discarded. Is that why she refuses to accept my love and return… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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 Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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