Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Anger requires energy, something I don’t dare waste on what cannot be altered.”

— Ellen Hopkins

52. “Loss is loss. Doesn’t take death to create it.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

54. “Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

56. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

60. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

62. “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

63. “Addiction is rarely conquered alone.”

— Ellen Hopkins

64. “I cut to focus when my brain is racing. I cut to make physical what I feel inside. I cut to see blood because I like it. I don’t like to cut, but I can’t give it up. I.”

— Ellen Hopkins

65. “Every high has an equal, measurable low.”

— Ellen Hopkins

66. “You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You’re like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you’ll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.”

— Ellen Hopkins

67. “Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.”

— Ellen Hopkins

68. “Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.”

— Ellen Hopkins

69. “I can’t change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.”

— Ellen Hopkins

70. “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 her. And when she needs me, I am always here.”

— Ellen Hopkins

71. “Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.”

— Ellen Hopkins

72. “God i’ve missed you. I can’t wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.”

— Ellen Hopkins

73. “Don’t you know? We’re connected by an invisible chain. It’s very long, very light. But also very strong. It can’t rust. Can’t break. And the only thing that can sever it is if you ever stop loving me.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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74. “Some people never find love at all, count yourself blessed if it ever happens your way.”

— Ellen Hopkins

75. “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 me bottled up inside. Where no one can touch her, until, unbidden, she comes pouring out.”

— Ellen Hopkins

76. “Do you know how beautiful you are?? I shook my head ‘I’m not. But you make me fell like I am.’ I wanted to be beautiful. To him. For him. I didn’t care how anybody else saw me. Only Ethan.”

— Ellen Hopkins

77. “Puzzle pieces don’t always connect do they?”

— Ellen Hopkins

78. “She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.”

— Ellen Hopkins

79. “Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow’s end or a camera with a failing lens.”

— Ellen Hopkins

80. “The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it’s hard to find your way out from under the heap.”

— Ellen Hopkins

81. “But death doesn’t scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.”

— Ellen Hopkins

82. “I’m a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they’ll see the real me.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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83. “Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they’re pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.”

— Ellen Hopkins

84. “Hell isn’t some fiery pit “down there.” It’s right here on Earth, in every dirty city, every yawning town.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

86. “And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.”

— Ellen Hopkins

87. “Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.”

— Ellen Hopkins

88. “A daughter is a rainbow – a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow – a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept.”

— Ellen Hopkins

89. “As the old saying goes, “sometimes loving someone means letting them go.”

— Ellen Hopkins

90. “The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different.”

— Ellen Hopkins

91. “She’s no longer afraid to die. What she’s afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.”

— Ellen Hopkins

92. “Women are inferior. And God likes it that way.”

— Ellen Hopkins

93. “Can a dream be wrong? Aren’t dreams God’s way of telling you things?”

— Ellen Hopkins

94. “When i’m with you my blood flows smoothly through.”

— Ellen Hopkins

95. “You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.”

— Ellen Hopkins

96. “Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.”

— Ellen Hopkins

97. “I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.”

— Ellen Hopkins

98. “She is silk, he is leather. She is lithe, he is brawn. She is low tide, he is high. She quivers, he quakes.”

— Ellen Hopkins

99. “Forever has no meaning when you’re living in the moment.”

— Ellen Hopkins

100. “Your life doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you.”

— Ellen Hopkins