Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.”

— Ellen Hopkins

2. “You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.”

— Ellen Hopkins

3. “You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.”

— Ellen Hopkins

4. “I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know I guess.”

— Ellen Hopkins

5. “Life is full of choices. We don’t always make good ones.”

— Ellen Hopkins

6. “She is madness, sanity. She is hell, and paradise.”

— Ellen Hopkins

7. “When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

9. “The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don’t know anything.”

— Ellen Hopkins

10. “Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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11. “You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.”

— Ellen Hopkins

12. “I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they don’t. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.”

— Ellen Hopkins

13. “Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.”

— Ellen Hopkins

14. “Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.”

— Ellen Hopkins

15. “I know I can’t stay here forever.”

— Ellen Hopkins

16. “Taking no chances means wasting your dreams...”

— Ellen Hopkins

17. “Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what’s left of it, consider options.”

— Ellen Hopkins

18. “The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I’d follow you across the universe.”

— Ellen Hopkins

19. “At that exact moment, every single thing about my life changed. Forever.”

— Ellen Hopkins

20. “Denial is a powerful thing. It makes you believe lies.”

— Ellen Hopkins

21. “Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It’s the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.”

— Ellen Hopkins

22. “Her smile is like summer moonlight-beautiful and magical, with a fire that could melt the night.”

— Ellen Hopkins

23. “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.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

25. “Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings.”

— Ellen Hopkins

26. “Love can complete you. It can also destroy you.”

— Ellen Hopkins

27. “Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.”

— Ellen Hopkins

28. “Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?”

— Ellen Hopkins

29. “In control. Out of control. Sometimes they’re the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it’s okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you’re sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.”

— Ellen Hopkins

30. “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...”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

32. “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 you can’t get rid of because killing it means killing you.”

— Ellen Hopkins

33. “What’s the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you’re a villain?”

— Ellen Hopkins

34. “Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.”

— Ellen Hopkins

35. “With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let’s run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.”

— Ellen Hopkins

36. “I want the part of you that you refuse to give.”

— Ellen Hopkins

37. “One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don’t have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.”

— Ellen Hopkins

38. “This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn’t about sex. It’s about connection.”

— Ellen Hopkins

39. “I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies.”

— Ellen Hopkins

40. “Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.”

— Ellen Hopkins

41. “Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.”

— Ellen Hopkins

42. “The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you’ve fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

44. “Ghosts don’t scare me. Flesh and blood people do.”

— Ellen Hopkins

45. “The worst liars are the ones everyone thinks would never ever tell a lie.”

— Ellen Hopkins

46. “Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while.”

— Ellen Hopkins

47. “Real love finds you once, if you’re lucky.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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48. “And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

50. “But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like “forever.” Maybe because forever is such a scary place.”

— Ellen Hopkins