Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

56. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

58. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

63. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

65. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

70. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

74. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

78. “Anger requires energy, something I don’t dare waste on what cannot be altered.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

82. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

86. “Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there’s no happily ever after. You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books.”

— Ellen Hopkins

87. “Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can’t be afraid of it, and you can’t worry that you’ll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.”

— Ellen Hopkins

88. “My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

90. “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

91. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

93. “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

94. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

96. “I was about six years old, still Daddy’s little girl, even though Daddy couldn’t care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?”

— Ellen Hopkins

97. “There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

99. “The truth is, I’ve always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.”

— Ellen Hopkins

100. “She’s incredible, not that she’s perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.”

— Ellen Hopkins