Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “From Daddy to Dad in thirty seconds. We were strangers after all.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

204. “It’s not easy to get close to anyone... Everyone’s afraid of everybody else... maybe because we’re all afraid of ourselves.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

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212. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

214. “Yes, I believe that there is life after death. Any physicist will tell you that energy doesn’t die, it only changes forms. What makes you you, Alex? That hunk of gray matter inside your skull? No way. You- all of us- have a life force. Energy. Some people call it a soul. Whatever you call it, it makes you you. And when your body dies, your energy will remain. I can’t say for sure what heaven is. But I have faith that it’s a special place, and that you will be welcome there.”

— Ellen Hopkins

215. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

218. “Love is only found in books.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

220. “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?”

— Ellen Hopkins

221. “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

222. “No rest for the wicked, which must include me.”

— Ellen Hopkins

223. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

231. “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

232. “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.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

238. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

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

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243. “It wants, but does not demand. It asks, but doesn’t take. It gives, and pleads for more. It is filled with desire, but also curiosity, and it teaches me that a kiss should come gift wrapped, not stripped naked.”

— Ellen Hopkins

244. “And how can it be he’s so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?”

— Ellen Hopkins

245. “But I so want to walk that razor’s edge, Take feeling to a whole new level.”

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246. “Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?”

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247. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

249. “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

250. “Aunt Cora says it’s my aura. “I see them, you know. Yours is dark. Sort of like black coffee, although it fluctuates. Sometimes there are little flecks of gold. If you could make those coalesce, turn your aura more toffee than coffee, things would be different.”

— Ellen Hopkins