She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character. — Ellen Hopkins Character 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 Breathing Copy Share Image
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. — Ellen Hopkins Heart Copy Share Image
I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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 Brain Copy Share Image
“You shine like the Milky Way. Now, there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have… — Ellen Hopkins Light Copy Share Image
Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain. — Ellen Hopkins Fear Copy Share Image
“With you, I am Adam. And you are my beautiful Eve. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful.… — Ellen Hopkins Beautiful 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 Brain Copy Share Image
I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I… — Ellen Hopkins Dad Copy Share Image
“Concentrate. Level the sight. Breathe in. Ease the trigger. And relax? BLAP! The can somersaulted across the sand. Pride swelled till I… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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 Beauty Copy Share Image
I told her about the man, not my daddy, she said, He was only making you into a real girl. I didn’t… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been… — Ellen Hopkins Age Copy Share Image
“When People Ask How he’s doing now, I have no idea what to say except for, “Better.” I don’t know if that’s… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“But on that night, Dad staggered in, eyes eerily lit. The corners of his mouth foaming spit. His demons planned an overnight… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I hear. Nobody thinks so. But I do. Sometimes people whisper. Sometimes they yell. Sometimes they say mean things. I see more… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the… — Ellen Hopkins Arctic Copy Share Image
“Ian's sense of right and wrong overwhelms me. Not a single other person … I know possesses such an unshakable sense of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“you're going to die someday anyway, why not die happy, why not die buzzed, why not die satisfied? Why not die sooner,… — Ellen Hopkins Happiness Copy Share Image
The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different. — Ellen Hopkins Astronomy Copy Share Image
Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love. — Ellen Hopkins Commitment 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 Dad Copy Share Image
“Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill. — Ellen Hopkins Angel Copy Share Image
I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Raining radiation on this ozone-deprived planet. The only thing she ever longed for was short-lived love.” — Ellen Hopkins Love Copy Share Image
Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are. — Ellen Hopkins Geek Copy Share Image
I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable. — Ellen Hopkins Dictionary Copy Share Image
Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window… — 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… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me. — Ellen Hopkins Care Copy Share Image
“I want to be stunned by passion so intense it knocks me right off my feet, down to my knees, where I… — Ellen Hopkins Intense Copy Share Image
