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Inside Quotes by Ellen Hopkins
- Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter,…
- Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have…
- Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are…
- Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I…
- Being In Love Means hard questions. Will I? Won't I? Should I? Could I? Yes? No? You? Me? There is no me without you. Is…
- I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never…
- I do have friends, but they don't know me, only someone I've created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice. I keep the melted…
- I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
- My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood…
- That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside…
- HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so WHY push to attain an ideal state of…
- And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?
- 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 inside you. Something…
- Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to…
- Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
- When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?
- Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.
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- Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power… — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a… — Margaret Atwood
- We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has… — Diane Ackerman
- I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap. — Dan Aykroyd
- Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be… — J. G. Ballard
- I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside. — Eric Bana
- All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little… — John Banville
- We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it… — Dave Barry