Quotes by Ellen Hopkins

About Ellen Hopkins:

Ellen Louise Hopkins is a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience.
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I tried that too, you know. After ... my family was murdered, and I was waiting for justice, I tried to hide inside a bottle. But some men, Tony, [..] are not small enough to fit into a bottle.

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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

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You want the truth? I’ve been fucked and betrayed often enough to not trust anybody. And that includes you.” Frank shrugged. “Don’t take it personal.” “Join the club. We meet Tuesdays. We never share the location with each other, and we s...

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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

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Fireworks. Snowflakes. Sunstroke and frostbite. It was all that I could ask for and completely unexpected. I expected demands. He gifted me with tenderness. I expected ego. He let me experiment. I expected disrespect. He called me beautiful. I expect...

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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..

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Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for. The way they get to play you, all the whi...

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We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.

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Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.

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We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.

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Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn't dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open?

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Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

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

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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout

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Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.

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Life was radical right after I met the monster. Later, life became harder, complicated. Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a riptide, Walking the wrong direction in the fast lane of the freeway, Waking from sweetest dreams to find yours...

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I don't know why we stopped reading together, but gradually we were not doing it regularly, and then without realizing it was happening we were reading different books, and gradually we came not to care about the book the other one was reading, becau...

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We did something incredibly stupid today." "I know. We should never had had sex without that darn condom." "What?!

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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

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She waited, thinking you were different from those who used and betrayed her. She believed you would find her, come charging to her rescue. That belief was as misplaced as the monsters we faced were deadly. The day came she finally lost her faith in ...

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Author Bio

  • NameEllen Hopkins
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMarch 26, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist