Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.”

— Ellen Hopkins

152. “Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.”

— Ellen Hopkins

153. “I know he wants to get serious. He’s definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.”

— Ellen Hopkins

154. “The future expected you. Now it mourns for you.”

— Ellen Hopkins

155. “Without Warning Sometimes you’re traveling a highway, the only road you’ve ever known, and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you.”

— Ellen Hopkins

156. “A best friend is your voice when you can’t find it.”

— Ellen Hopkins

157. “Losing Grandma, just when I’d found her again. A waterfall of flowers brightened her funeral, but they couldn’t disguise the stench of death.”

— Ellen Hopkins

158. “Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that’s how you’ll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don’t. I think hell is frozen.”

— Ellen Hopkins

159. “I mean, if you’re gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don’t you? Okay, maybe not.”

— Ellen Hopkins

160. “Anger is easier than forgiveness.”

— Ellen Hopkins

161. “Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve.”

— Ellen Hopkins

162. “Happily ever after is a concept I’ll never believe in.”

— Ellen Hopkins

163. “I nod, because I do understand. I’m just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I’ve already accepted.”

— Ellen Hopkins

164. “He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.”

— Ellen Hopkins

165. “Yeah, I know getting high isn’t so smart. Ask me if I care.”

— Ellen Hopkins

166. “I wonder how long it would take him to realize I’m right as sin – it’s the rest of the world that’s wrong. I’m not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?”

— Ellen Hopkins

167. “Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?”

— Ellen Hopkins

168. “I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.”

— Ellen Hopkins

169. “Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.”

— Ellen Hopkins

170. “From what I’ve seen, love isn’t about mutual respect. It’s more concerns with control than sacrifice. And I wonder whether it’s better or worse when love finally walks away.”

— Ellen Hopkins

171. “No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.”

— Ellen Hopkins

172. “The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.”

— Ellen Hopkins

173. “Why is mania bad, if it means you’re on top of the world, where everything is white? Bright.”

— Ellen Hopkins

174. “Never say never, dear. You might be surprised at what you can do, should circumstances dictate.”

— Ellen Hopkins

175. “A problem is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist. If you think about it, life would be kind of boring if it were completely free of friction.”

— Ellen Hopkins

176. “My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i’m willing to take risks.”

— Ellen Hopkins

177. “Red and raw like my heart, pried from your’s, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.”

— Ellen Hopkins

178. “Bree is no imaginary playmate, no overactive pituitary, no alter ego, moving in. Hers is the face I wear.”

— Ellen Hopkins

179. “Despite every claim otherwise, he’s a coward. And a coward with a gun is treacherous.”

— Ellen Hopkins

180. “Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.”

— Ellen Hopkins

181. “BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.”

— Ellen Hopkins

182. “Whatever has happened in someone’s past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.”

— Ellen Hopkins

183. “Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I’d only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn’t say.”

— Ellen Hopkins

184. “If you will only pause, as you hurry through your days, take a minute to look at passersby, beyond cursory skin-deep analysis, all the way into their eyes, what beauty you might find woven from the life threads there.”

— Ellen Hopkins

185. “Face red, but brave in spite of it, Ethan offered an even smaller box. My hands shook as i opened it. Set in a gold promise ring, three small diamonds glittered. One for you, one for me, one for us, he said sweetly. I love you.”

— Ellen Hopkins

186. “I think God cares more about how you treat others than who you sleep with.”

— Ellen Hopkins

187. “Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the “blame” is on the individual.”

— Ellen Hopkins

188. “Sorry. But I don’t need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.”

— Ellen Hopkins

189. “One kiss, I was totally hooked.”

— Ellen Hopkins

190. “There is strength in forgiveness.”

— Ellen Hopkins

191. “I’m in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.”

— Ellen Hopkins

192. “I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?”

— Ellen Hopkins

193. “It doesn’t matter how the gun fell into the wrong hands. It only matters that it did.”

— Ellen Hopkins

194. “And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I’m alive, despite this living death.”

— Ellen Hopkins

195. “Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us – female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority.”

— Ellen Hopkins

196. “Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that’s how you’ll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.”

— Ellen Hopkins

197. “Forever made that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender.”

— Ellen Hopkins

198. “I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?”

— Ellen Hopkins

199. “In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.”

— Ellen Hopkins

200. “When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.”

— Ellen Hopkins