Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty -… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
...Things happened when you were little. Things you don't remember now, and don't want to. But they need to escape, need to… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin,… — 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
God is love," she said. "And he respects love, whether it's between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through 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 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
In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them.… — 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
