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Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2026 Update)
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Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

251. “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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Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

252. “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

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Love is a fragile thing, easily destroyed by dishonesty.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

254. “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

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

255. “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

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

258. “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

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Would I drown saving him?”

260. “Would I drown saving him?”

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Sometimes I’m not so sure just who I am either.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Holy effing moly.”

263. “Holy effing moly.”

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Ellen Hopkins Quote: “God wasn’t love, couldn’t be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Was I saved, or was fate simply too damn busy killing other people that day to catch up to me, too?”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

266. “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

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

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

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Evil is not intrinsic. It’s fashioned.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

270. “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

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

271. “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

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

272. “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

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Life isn’t fair, and luck? That is something you create.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

274. “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

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “The love of her life dissolved into dreams.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

276. “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

277. “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

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

278. “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

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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...”

280. “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

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Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Pretty isn’t good enough.”

282. “Pretty isn’t good enough.”

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “It’s just so hard to feel good, you know?”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Why doesn’t love come with an owner’s manual?”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

285. “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

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

286. “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

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “White nationalism? Definitely not her cup of hate. But it is yours.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

289. “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

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Long trip, long day, no thanks, I’ll stay. Okay.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

291. “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

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “Another day, a different hour, take a left and not a right, you’d wind up a whole different being. Knowing if that would be better requires a realm of experience only decades can build.”

292. “Another day, a different hour, take a left and not a right, you’d wind up a whole different being. Knowing if that would be better requires a realm of experience only decades can build.”

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

294. “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

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

296. “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

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “A vacation is a poor substitute for love.”

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

— Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

298. “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

Ellen Hopkins Quote: “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.”

299. “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

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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