Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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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253. “Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.”

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

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255. “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.”

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

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

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259. “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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260. “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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261. “Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.”

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262. “Holy effing moly.”

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

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

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

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266. “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.”

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

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268. “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.”

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

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270. “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.”

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

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

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

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274. “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.”

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275. “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.”

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276. “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.”

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

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

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

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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...”

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

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282. “Would I drown saving him?”

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

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

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

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286. “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.”

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287. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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292. “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.”

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

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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.”

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295. “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.”

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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?”

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

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

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299. “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.”

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300. “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.”

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