Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2025 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. “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

4. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

23. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

28. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

30. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

34. “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

35. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

37. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

39. “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

40. “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

41. “I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.”

— Ellen Hopkins

42. “That’s what I’ll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.”

— Ellen Hopkins

43. “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.”

— Ellen Hopkins

44. “Forever has no meaning when you’re living in the moment. I wasn’t ready for that moment to end.”

— Ellen Hopkins

45. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”

— Ellen Hopkins

46. “Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

49. “Addiction is rarely conquered alone.”

— Ellen Hopkins

50. “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?”

— Ellen Hopkins