Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “There is strength in forgiveness.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

203. “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

204. “Home. What does it mean to me? Will I ever know home again?”

— Ellen Hopkins

205. “I’m right as sin – it’s the rest of the world that’s wrong.”

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206. “I know it may sound weird, but looking death square in the eye made me question the unknown. What happens after we exhale our last breathe? Do we really see an otherworldly light? Does God send angels to guide us home? Or when our eyes close, do we forfeit sight? And will our earthly spirits forever roam?”

— Ellen Hopkins

207. “Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time.”

— Ellen Hopkins

208. “Don’t make me laugh, I’d much rather cry.”

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209. “How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe.”

— Ellen Hopkins

210. “I wonder if what I did made her hurt as much as she hurt me. Only fair, to trade hurt. But life isn’t fair.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

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213. “From Daddy to Dad in thirty seconds. We were strangers after all.”

— Ellen Hopkins

214. “And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn’t.”

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215. “I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair; toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.”

— Ellen Hopkins

216. “God is love,” she said. “And he respects love, whether it’s between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends. I don’t think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Love with all your heart. Don’t hurt others, and help those in need. That is all you need to know. And don’t worry about heaven. If it exists, you’ll be welcome.”

— Ellen Hopkins

217. “I get so nervous when im around you i start to studder.”

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218. “So you try to think of someone else you’re mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.”

— Ellen Hopkins

219. “Who do they become when night descends, a cool puff of smoke, and vampires come out to party?”

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220. “Real love shouldn’t be disposable.”

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221. “Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead.”

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222. “How can I respect a house where women are no more than servants? How can I respect rules laid down by a phantom father? How can I respect a man who...”

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223. “Back turned, you don’t have to look at what you’ve left behind. And the person who first turned their back on you can’t watch you break down and cry. Never allow an enemy to see weakness in you.”

— Ellen Hopkins

224. “Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.”

— Ellen Hopkins

225. “Love is only found in books.”

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226. “But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I’m not liable for my actions. So screw it, I’ll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions.”

— Ellen Hopkins

227. “Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.”

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228. “As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.”

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229. “I told her about the man, not my daddy, she said, He was only making you into a real girl. I didn’t understand. But I made myself believe her. I was a real girl now. But what was I before?”

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230. “Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.”

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231. “Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control.”

— Ellen Hopkins

232. “You can’t trust a man, any man.”

— Ellen Hopkins

233. “Everyone’s afraid of everybody else... maybe because we’re all afraid of ourselves.”

— Ellen Hopkins

234. “I am different. And I don’t understand exactly how. And I don’t understand just why.”

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235. “Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that’s just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.”

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236. “Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.”

— Ellen Hopkins

237. “I’d like to cry now. Don’t know how.”

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238. “Her halo was never gold, or it couldn’t have rusted so completely.”

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239. “I have no right to love you, but I do.”

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240. “Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.”

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241. “Love is a fragile thing, easily destroyed by dishonesty.”

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242. “Some secrets can’t be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.”

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243. “Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.”

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244. “Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.”

— Ellen Hopkins

245. “This building disguised as a house of worship, was rather like a hive. A backward hive, for honeybees, at least, have the good sense to worship the female that gifts them all with life. They do not hold their drones in such high esteem. But here, is the hive of hornets, the males flitted flower to flower, pollinating, and stinging and injecting their poison.”

— Ellen Hopkins

246. “Flying Is that what it’s like when you die? Do you slip out of your skin, go soaring up into a butterscotch sky? Do you surf waves of light? How far? How high? I hope that’s what it’s like, but I’m afraid it’s a lot more like falling with no net to catch you, and no way of knowing how hard you will hit or where you’ll stop. Will you touch down back on Earth, or will you land in the nightmare you always feared you’d never wake up from?”

— Ellen Hopkins

247. “When all else fails, dream bigger.”

— Ellen Hopkins

248. “Love isn’t invincible. Some people take advantage of that.”

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249. “God wasn’t love, couldn’t be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.”

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250. “Was I saved, or was fate simply too damn busy killing other people that day to catch up to me, too?”

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