Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.

Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession.

Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.

Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.

Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.

Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

Never say never, dear. You might be surprised at what you can do, should circumstances dictate

Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

hindsight is gained through experience

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.

Home ...Home. ...the word, ...has ...no ...meaning

Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.

I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.

....a perfect paper airplane.

Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.

I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

This is unstoppable, no holds barred. This is beautiful. Crazy. A beginning. Betrayal. Addictive. Aggressive. Alive. This is something to be afraid of.

Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind... ...but he won't.

Would I drown saving him?

I get so nervous when im around you i start to studder

He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

A Problem Is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist.

Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?

Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies

When You Weren’t Looking The child became a woman, though she wasn’t ready to. Don’t ask how or why. Those questions are not important ones. Can’t you see you didn’t care enough to notice?

Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.

Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.

Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead.

When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through

in a woman's womb. another chance. to make the world better.

I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.

But I so want to walk that razor's edge, Take feeling to a whole new level.

Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.

I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?

I told her about the man, not my daddy, she said, He was only making you into a real girl. I didn’t understand. But I made myself believe her. I was a real girl now. But what was I before?

When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.

Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?

I know I can't stay here forever

Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.

I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.