“Have you ever tried To quit a bad habit, one that has come to define you?” — Ellen Hopkins Bad habit Copy Share Image
When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival. — Ellen Hopkins Choice 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 Chance Copy Share Image
She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say. — Ellen Hopkins Angel Copy Share Image
Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions. — Ellen Hopkins Brain Copy Share Image
Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Not slumber, but sleep just this side of waking, where dreams fuse with reality.” — Ellen Hopkins Dream Copy Share Image
“oh, how I wish that I could give him what Daddy takes so easily from me. But it would be a tainted… — Ellen Hopkins Sadness Copy Share Image
“The Great Thing About long-time, all-time friends is, no matter how many hours (days, weeks, months, and, I assume, years) you spend… — Ellen Hopkins Friend Copy Share Image
“I might have been your zygote. Your fetus. Maybe even your off-spring. But I have never been your son. You have no… — Ellen Hopkins Mom 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 College Copy Share Image
Don't you know? We're connected by an invisible chain. It's very long, very light. But also very strong. It can't rust. Can't… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt.… — Ellen Hopkins Anxious Copy Share Image
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer… — 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 Across the universe Copy Share Image
Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day… — Ellen Hopkins Apparitions 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 Chance Copy Share Image
“Humans aren't inherently good- a ludicrous proposition. Instinctively, people are barbarians. Cannibals, even. They eat each other alive, get off on torture,… — Ellen Hopkins Christianity Copy Share Image
“Flying Is that what it’s like when you die? Do you slip out of your skin, go soaring up into a butterscotch… — Ellen Hopkins Flying 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 Dreams Copy Share Image
Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared.… — Ellen Hopkins Angry Copy Share Image
Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way… — Ellen Hopkins Apricots Copy Share Image
As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity? — Ellen Hopkins Infinity Copy Share Image
“I truly wish the power of his love could eclipse the overwhelming shame.” — Ellen Hopkins Love Copy Share Image