Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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206. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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215. “The truth is, I don’t have a real clue what love is – how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.”

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216. “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.”

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

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218. “Love is only found in books.”

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

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

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

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223. “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.”

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

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

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

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228. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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237. “Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.”

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238. “So when he asked about getting high, I didn’t think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.”

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239. “They say, when facing the onslaught of tooth and claw, a creature’s heart can simply quit.”

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240. “I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.”

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

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

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245. “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.”

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

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248. “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.”

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

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