“If you acquaint yourself with yourself, you don't always like the person you find inside.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Think how much people must have loved each other when all they had was each other” — 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 Death 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… — Ellen Hopkins Life Copy Share Image
“You share a toast with me: Here's to seasonal madness, part-time relatives, and substitutes for love.” — Ellen Hopkins Love Copy Share Image
“Shane was born perfectly fine, despite the same genetic pairing. One in four. That's what their odds were. God gave Shelby SMA.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins Ashes Copy Share Image
Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when… — Ellen Hopkins Heart Copy Share Image
“So you want to know all about me, Who I am What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you… — Ellen Hopkins Chance meeting Copy Share Image
“Some people Are worthy of a bullet straight to the heart because that is where cruelty evolves into evil. Some humans aren't… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme… — Ellen Hopkins Change Copy Share Image
Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love. I'm living large and living for today because… — Ellen Hopkins Commitment Copy Share Image
It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had… — Ellen Hopkins Best kiss Copy Share Image
It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living… — Ellen Hopkins Addiction Copy Share Image
“Did I expect To learn something new, walking the same old avenues? Did I believe I'd find surprises under the pillow my… — Ellen Hopkins Change Copy Share Image
Not exactly. I see a girl who wants to present someone special to the world. Someone beautiful. The pinnacle of beauty. But… — Ellen Hopkins Beautiful Copy Share Image
Being In Love Means hard questions. Will I? Won't I? Should I? Could I? Yes? No? You? Me? There is no me… — Ellen Hopkins Being in love Copy Share Image
“Later, Bishop Crandall dropped by The house to give me a stern reprimand. He sat across the cluttered table, playing with a… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use… — 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
Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within… — Ellen Hopkins Angry Copy Share Image
“When we finally meet how much do I confess? Our bond is tenuous. Frail as a drift of moonlight on open sea.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love? — Ellen Hopkins Cybersecurity 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 Kiss 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 Drought Copy Share Image
“The best thing about my mom being such a bitch is not worrying about trying to make her proud of me.” — Ellen Hopkins Mom Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn't dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide… — Ellen Hopkins Thoughts Copy Share Image
“I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my… — Ellen Hopkins Books Copy Share Image
“I've never known him as a civilian. Never known him as just a regular guy, something I'm not sure he--or any warrior--can… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone. — Ellen Hopkins Anger Copy Share Image
No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“And I did say excuse me, with my butt. Apparently you don’t speak “rectum.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again! — Ellen Hopkins Defiance Copy Share Image
The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
This is unstoppable, no holds barred. This is beautiful. Crazy. A beginning. Betrayal. Addictive. Aggressive. Alive. This is something to be afraid… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
