Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.”

— Ellen Hopkins

302. “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

303. “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.”

— Ellen Hopkins

304. “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

305. “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

306. “I want to know living love. And I don’t want to wait for it.”

— Ellen Hopkins

307. “Was the fun in the fall?”

— Ellen Hopkins

308. “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

309. “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

310. “Be true to who you are – no matter who are you.”

— Ellen Hopkins

311. “Satisfaction is transient – an interim state of mind.”

— Ellen Hopkins

312. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

314. “How many kinds of weirdos are there?” She doesn’t laugh. Lots. And the worst are the ones you don’t suspect. They’re the ones you invite inside your front door.”

— Ellen Hopkins

315. “It pays to be the better predator.”

— Ellen Hopkins

316. “I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary ‘in love’ is indefinable.”

— Ellen Hopkins

317. “But hey, I’m not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?”

— Ellen Hopkins

318. “I don’t think God has a gender. I don’t think God hates gays or Democrats, and I don’t think you have to be Born Again to find your way to Heaven. I believe God expects us to care for one another, even those who are different. God wants us to be good stewards of this planet, and that means not wasting or violating its resources. Most of all, it means not blowing it up. Especially not in God’s name.”

— Ellen Hopkins

319. “Violence is never right. But a man has a duty to keep his wife in check.”

— Ellen Hopkins

320. “The longer we try to hold on to each other, the more it will hurt when we finally fall apart.”

— Ellen Hopkins

321. “Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your’s and mine.”

— Ellen Hopkins

322. “Wishful thinking pretty much always comes back to slap you in the face.”

— Ellen Hopkins

323. “Dream bigger before you can’t remember to dream at all.”

— Ellen Hopkins

324. “Rules are part of our lives. Only children and fools believe they’re immune.”

— Ellen Hopkins

325. “What I’ve learned is just how resilient love can be. You can beat it, pound it into pulp, but killing it is hard to do.”

— Ellen Hopkins

326. “I don’t think we’ll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun.”

— Ellen Hopkins

327. “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

328. “Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.”

— Ellen Hopkins

329. “I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I’ve tried to ignore it, but it won’t go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don’t have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I’ll never ask again. It’s in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more.”

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

331. “Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.”

— Ellen Hopkins

332. “The memory stirs sadness. It scatters around me like dust.”

— Ellen Hopkins

333. “Love’ is safe. ‘In love’ is reckless. Alive.”

— Ellen Hopkins

334. “Love is for children and dimwads.”

— Ellen Hopkins

335. “I do have friends, but they don’t know me, only someone I’ve created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice.”

— Ellen Hopkins

336. “Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead.”

— Ellen Hopkins

337. “The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.”

— Ellen Hopkins

338. “And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.”

— Ellen Hopkins

339. “It was body rush After body rush, intensity building. Touch me there.”

— Ellen Hopkins

340. “I knew from the start we were nothing like “forever”. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.”

— Ellen Hopkins

341. “The problem with being grounded, is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think.”

— Ellen Hopkins

342. “Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned through all this, it’s to have faith in love.”

— Ellen Hopkins

343. “Forgive myself for what, exactly, you bastard internal voice?”

— Ellen Hopkins

344. “Even as a kid I had to be the adult.”

— Ellen Hopkins

345. “Can ‘love and obey’ possibly go together?”

— Ellen Hopkins

346. “I need to find a way to feel alive that doesn’t require someone else to make it happen.”

— Ellen Hopkins

347. “When you’re younger, a bump in the nose and a few extra pounds don’t mean much. But now they do.”

— Ellen Hopkins

348. “Bipolar disorder is vicious. In her manic phases, she was the mother every kid wants – fun, loving, full of life. But when the switch flipped, she barely spoke to any of us, just hid out in her room, watching TV. She didn’t bathe. Didn’t eat. She refused her meds, preferring alcohol. No one, least of all Dad, could convince her otherwise. And then one day, she was gone.” “You mean dead.” “Yes.”

— Ellen Hopkins

349. “Don’t give away your power.”

— Ellen Hopkins

350. “Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love. I’m living large and living for today because there might not be a tomorrow.”

— Ellen Hopkins