Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they’re pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.”

— Ellen Hopkins

102. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

104. “It wasn’t my first kiss, maybe it wasn’t my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.”

— Ellen Hopkins

105. “Two days, two nights, no sleep, no food, come down off the monster, you crash real hard.”

— Ellen Hopkins

106. “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

107. “Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it’s exactly the place I need to be.”

— Ellen Hopkins

108. “When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

110. “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

111. “Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.”

— Ellen Hopkins

112. “As long as I could forever stay his little princess.”

— Ellen Hopkins

113. “But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don’t, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

115. “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

116. “The problem with resolutions is they’re only as solid as the person making them.”

— Ellen Hopkins

117. “Six months since we met up again we are inseparable, an intricate weave. No longer do I believe this is a temporary fling. More like total commitment. More like I have walked down the aisle, holding hands with the monster.”

— Ellen Hopkins

118. “Grandma once told me it’s easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.”

— Ellen Hopkins

119. “I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you’ll never let go?”

— Ellen Hopkins

120. “Then teach me how to not care about someone who was everything to me. All I want is to know she’s okay. Is that too much to ask?”

— Ellen Hopkins

121. “Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.”

— Ellen Hopkins

122. “Happiness is a bull’s-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.”

— Ellen Hopkins

123. “I feel dead inside anyway. Cara made me feel alive. Maybe that’s why I can’t let her go. I don’t want to feel dead anymore. What I think is, I need a way to feel alive that doesn’t require someone else to make it happen.”

— Ellen Hopkins

124. “Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?”

— Ellen Hopkins

125. “How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?”

— Ellen Hopkins

126. “I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.”

— Ellen Hopkins

127. “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. I considered the streets beyond, bleak as the bleached bones of wilderness scaffolding my heart. Just a stone’s throw away.”

— Ellen Hopkins

128. “When you’ve only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.”

— Ellen Hopkins

129. “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.”

— Ellen Hopkins

130. “The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me.”

— Ellen Hopkins

131. “Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.”

— Ellen Hopkins

132. “Here we are. Home sweet home. What’s mine is yours.”

— Ellen Hopkins

133. “Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.”

— Ellen Hopkins

134. “Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?”

— Ellen Hopkins

135. “Life is full of choices. We don’t always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs.”

— Ellen Hopkins

136. “Fighting Depression Is hard when you have no real reason to fight it. Why pretend everything is fine when everything pretty much sucks?”

— Ellen Hopkins

137. “I don’t need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?”

— Ellen Hopkins

138. “Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.”

— Ellen Hopkins

139. “Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn’t belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.”

— Ellen Hopkins

140. “Would I ever find forever love? Do I really want to, when forever was a word without meaning?”

— Ellen Hopkins

141. “I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?”

— Ellen Hopkins

142. “Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?”

— Ellen Hopkins

143. “This is unstoppable, no holds barred. This is beautiful. Crazy. A beginning. Betrayal. Addictive. Aggressive. Alive. This is something to be afraid of.”

— Ellen Hopkins

144. “You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books.”

— Ellen Hopkins

145. “If all you can promise me is today, I’ll take it and hope for tomorrow.”

— Ellen Hopkins

146. “Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.”

— Ellen Hopkins

147. “Look. I’m not sure exactly what happened here, but you are everything to me. Even if you weren’t, you have to realize you can’t get a guy all worked up, then tell him to stop. It’s not fair.”

— Ellen Hopkins

148. “Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?”

— Ellen Hopkins

149. “Love is a pain in disguise, a scorpion lying in wait for just the right moment to strike and inject you with its poison before scuttling off into the shadows.”

— Ellen Hopkins

150. “Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.”

— Ellen Hopkins