Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

253. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

255. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

257. “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.”

— Ellen Hopkins

258. “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.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

260. “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

261. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

265. “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...”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

267. “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

268. “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

269. “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

270. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

272. “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

273. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

276. “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...”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

279. “Would I drown saving him?”

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280. “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

281. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

284. “Holy effing moly.”

— Ellen Hopkins

285. “Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who’s supposed to protect you.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

287. “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

288. “I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

290. “A vacation is a poor substitute for love.”

— Ellen Hopkins

291. “The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.”

— Ellen Hopkins

292. “Why does time erode relationships? Is there a way to avoid its relentless lapping? Is any love strong enough to withstand the chipping away?”

— Ellen Hopkins

293. “How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn’t know existed. I guess it really isn’t all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.”

— Ellen Hopkins

294. “Pray you could somehow stop the uncertainty, somehow stop the loathing, somehow stop the pain...”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

296. “Pretty isn’t good enough.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

299. “Too many worries will take your pretty away.”

— Ellen Hopkins

300. “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