Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “When all else fails, dream bigger.”

— Ellen Hopkins

252. “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

253. “Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.”

— Ellen Hopkins

254. “Would I drown saving him?”

— Ellen Hopkins

255. “Sometimes I’m not so sure just who I am either.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

257. “Holy effing moly.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

260. “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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261. “Empty is the perfect state of being. Nothing inside to anchor you. Nothing inside to chain you down, keep you from living your dreams. Empty, almost weightless, you are an eyelash afloat on a blink of breeze. You can rise about tension and worry, loosed from the grip of gravity. Adrift in thermal lift, you ride the wing of freedom and soar. Empty, you are Eve in Eden. Empty, you are what you were meant to be.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

263. “Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that’s the strength of books. Don’t worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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264. “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.”

— Ellen Hopkins

265. “I’m holding Eden in my hands, and it makes me glad there is no God to take this garden away from me.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

268. “I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty – flowers, seashells, dragonflies – have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.”

— Ellen Hopkins

269. “I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.”

— Ellen Hopkins

270. “Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize.”

— Ellen Hopkins

271. “Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they’re not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books...”

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272. “Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.”

— Ellen Hopkins

273. “It’s just so hard to feel good, you know?”

— Ellen Hopkins

274. “Why doesn’t love come with an owner’s manual?”

— Ellen Hopkins

275. “Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.”

— Ellen Hopkins

276. “Falling in love can happen to complete strangers. Staying in love requires being best friends and that means accepting the person beneath the veneer.”

— Ellen Hopkins

277. “But if there is a hereafter, one my father has been welcomed into, it must be a godless wasteland.”

— Ellen Hopkins

278. “White nationalism? Definitely not her cup of hate. But it is yours.”

— Ellen Hopkins

279. “When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.”

— Ellen Hopkins

280. “Long trip, long day, no thanks, I’ll stay. Okay.”

— Ellen Hopkins

281. “Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.”

— Ellen Hopkins

282. “I’m afraid it will never be perfect again. I am indelibly stained. Forever redefined, but blurred around the edges.”

— Ellen Hopkins

283. “Evil is not intrinsic. It’s fashioned.”

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284. “I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren’t born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It’s fashioned.”

— Ellen Hopkins

285. “All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It’s nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.”

— Ellen Hopkins

286. “Two huge questions keep dangling in front of you, like proverbial carrots in front of the donkey. One: Do you want love? And two: Are you able to give it? Either you’re terrified of the emotion or you’re a sociopath.”

— Ellen Hopkins

287. “Life isn’t fair, and luck? That is something you create.”

— Ellen Hopkins

288. “Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he’s in.”

— Ellen Hopkins

289. “The love of her life dissolved into dreams.”

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290. “Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I’d ever feel completely human again.”

— Ellen Hopkins

291. “I am the voice of Violence. You know me. You do. I’ve made my presence clear though you may pretend otherwise. We need each other, you and I.”

— Ellen Hopkins

292. “The road snakes south, then north, ultimately taking us east, and I wonder if life is like that. Go one way, then another, to end up someplace else.”

— Ellen Hopkins

293. “I felt so fine I didn’t once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I’d always feared most.”

— Ellen Hopkins

294. “Pretty isn’t good enough.”

— Ellen Hopkins

295. “Mistakes are easy to come by. Why make the same one twice?”

— Ellen Hopkins

296. “Think of how they must have loved when all they had was each other.”

— Ellen Hopkins

297. “What I don’t like is what it sometimes takes to win. Backstabbing. Manipulation. Out-and-out bribery once in a while, and not always the monetary kind.”

— Ellen Hopkins

298. “Maybe crazy is preferable to staying strong when you just want to break down and weep.”

— Ellen Hopkins

299. “Librarians were like guardian angels, with graying hair and beady eyes, magnified through reading glasses, and always read to recommend new literary windows to gaze through.”

— Ellen Hopkins

300. “If you acquaint yourself with yourself, you don’t always like the person you find inside.”

— Ellen Hopkins