Pain Quotes by Ellen Hopkins

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

— Ellen Hopkins

“Built by pain and drive.”

— Ellen Hopkins

Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

— Ellen Hopkins

“The portal to pain is caring too deeply about anyone.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

“Some people blunt such pain with dope or booze or a dive into madness, but I don't have such luxuries available to…

— Ellen Hopkins

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

— Ellen Hopkins

Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel.…

— Ellen Hopkins

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

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence…

— Ellen Hopkins

Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo,…

— Ellen Hopkins

“But how do you tell your heart, “No, don't swell with magic, you'll only burst?” How do you tell it to clamp…

— Ellen Hopkins

Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close…

— Ellen Hopkins

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

Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there,…

— Ellen Hopkins