Mom Quotes by Ellen Hopkins

11 Mom quotes by Ellen Hopkins

Hopkins writes with a confessional edge, and these lines give a quick sense of how she frames the mother figure—intense, honest, and emotionally resonant.

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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.

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“I hope I'm never a mom. But if I am, I'll make damn sure my kids look up to me.”

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“The best thing about my mom being such a bitch is not worrying about trying to make her proud of me.”

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“I might have been your zygote. Your fetus. Maybe even your off-spring. But I have never been your son. You have no…

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Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means…

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I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself…

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At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the…

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I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst…

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“I take four or five heavy steps beyond the front door and Mom comes rushing down the hallway. "Shane! What in the…

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One Time, One Day between Davie and Roberta , I asked my mom why she persisted, kept on having baby after baby,…

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In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of…

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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.

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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…

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...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…

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The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a…

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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.…

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So You Want to Know All about her. Who she really is. (Was?) Why she swerved off the high road. Hard left to nowhere,…

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“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…

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Six months since we met up again we are inseparable, an intricate weave. No longer do I believe this is a temporary fling. More…

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“But who ever said the easiest path is the one you should choose?”

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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.

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Every high has an equal, measurable low.

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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

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