Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“the past will influence your future, but it doesn't have to destroy it.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Our kiss eclipses all others, real, imagine, dreamed of. It is the beginning of time, it is the end of the ages.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“That stinking mirror doesn't lie. Every time I walk by it shouts out, 'Hey. Chub. When are you going to lose those… — 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
Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by… — 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… — 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… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“My grandmother used to say God gives us drought years-years drained of happiness-to prepare us for bounteous times. I'm more than ready… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Private dreams Snare you. Swallow you. Make you feel like you're all alone, like you don't want to sleep and fall into… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I wasn't an alcoholic. I didn't drink every day, didn't often drink to excess or binge. And could leave it alone completely… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“And it occurred to me for one uneasy moment that every move I had made lately might have started a landslide. What… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Honolulu represents the worst of all that. Yet every time I fly in, anticipation begins to build just about the time I… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Fire! Your nose ignites, flameless kerosene (and, some say, Drano) laced with ephedrine you want to cry powdered demons bite through cartilage… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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
This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Look, being committed doesn't make you dead, but all those months alone can make you feel that way sometimes. You never signed… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no meaning when you're living in… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
One Time, One Day between Davie and Roberta , I asked my mom why she persisted, kept on having baby after baby,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question… — 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
