Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart?… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Fireworks. Snowflakes. Sunstroke and frostbite. It was all that I could ask for and completely unexpected. I expected demands. He gifted me… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing… — 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 Copy Share Image
HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Not sure there's been a single day of my life when everything was totally fine. And now? The best I can say… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Life was radical right after I met the monster. Later, life became harder, complicated. Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a… — 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
