Top 350 Ellen Hopkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

304. “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

305. “No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.”

— Ellen Hopkins

306. “I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.”

— Ellen Hopkins

307. “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

308. “Holy effing moly.”

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309. “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...”

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310. “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

311. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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320. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

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323. “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

324. “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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325. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

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328. “Love is for children and dimwads.”

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

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330. “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.”

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331. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

333. “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

334. “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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Ellen Hopkins

347. “Don’t give away your power.”

— 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.”

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349. “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.”

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350. “Babies aren’t born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It’s fashioned.”

— Ellen Hopkins