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Ellen Hopkins Quotes | Quotes said by Ellen Hopkins

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #1

    ...Every word an author writes causes ripples, like tossing a stone into a pond. And you don't know where they'll go, or who they'll touch, or when they might come back to you. I think everything you do is kind of like that, too.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #2

    ...I know there's no such thing as forever. So what can we be, in the now?

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #3

    ...Things happened
    when you were little. Things you
    don't remember now, and don't want
    to. But they need to escape,

    need to worm their way out
    of that dark place in your brain
    where you keep them stashed.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #4

    ...what good would it
    do to
    shutter your windows, never
    dream of rainbows or find hope
    in promises? Why choose to
    walk away
    rather than hold your ground
    and fight for love?

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #5

    ?Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #6

    A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us. We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #7

    A chat

    With the Grim Reaper
    should be enough to scare
    away any thought of relapse.
    Wish it were that easy,
    but not even days conversing
    with death can disintegrate
    the claws of addiction.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #8

    A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #9

    A problem is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist. If you think about it, life would be kind of boring if it were completely free of friction.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #10

    A word to the unwise.
    Torch every book.
    Char every page.
    Burn every word to ash.
    Ideas are incombustible.
    And therein lies your real fear.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #11

    Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #12

    Alone
    everything changes.
    Some might call it distorted reality
    but it's exactly the place I need to be.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #13

    Am I more afraid
    Of taking a chance and
    learning I'm somebody
    I don't know, or of risking
    new territory,
    only to find I'm the same
    old me? There is comfort
    in the tried and true.
    Breaking ground
    might uncover a sinkhole,
    one impossible to climb out
    of. And setting sail in
    uncharted waters
    might mean capsizing into
    a sea monster's jaws.
    Easier to turn my back on
    these things
    than to try tjem and fail.
    And yet, a whisper insists
    I need to know if they are or
    aren't integral to me.
    Status quo is a swamp.
    And stagnation is slow death.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #14

    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 Quote #15

    And the scary thing is, I’m on a fast track to that same aviary. Unless I find my wings.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #16

    Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #17

    Anger is easier than forgiveness.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #18

    Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #19

    Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the person who first turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Never allow an enemy to see weakness in you.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #20

    But Hey, Guess What
    Crazy means I'm not liable
    for my actions. So screw it,
    I'll go home, propped up on
    Prozac against distractions

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #21

    But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like forever. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #22

    Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #23

    Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #24

    crawling up into daddy's lap
    when dad was still

    DADDY

    nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heart

    LISTENING

    to the thump...thump
    somewhere beneath muscle
    and breastbone I remember his arms
    their sublime

    ENCIRCLING

    and the shawdow of his voice
    I love you, little girl.
    Put away your bad dreams.
    Daddy's here

    I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that came

    HOME

    from work everyday and instead
    of picking me up, chased me far
    far
    away

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #25

    Did you ever, when you were little, endure your parents’ warnings, then wait for them to leave the room, pry loose protective covers and consider inserting some metal object into an electrical outlet?

    Did you wonder if for once you might light up the room?

    When you were big enough to cross the street on your own, did you ever wait for a signal, hear the frenzied approach of a fire truck and feel like stepping out in front of it?

    Did you wonder just how far that rocket ride might take you?

    When you were almost grown, did you ever sit in a bubble bath, perspiration pooling, notice a blow dryer plugged in within easy reach, and think about dropping it into the water?

    Did you wonder if the expected rush might somehow fail you?

    And now, do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #26

    Disappointment

    Can do a couple things.
    It can drop you into a giant
    sucking sinkhole of

    depression,

    a place you have to fight
    to climb out of. Or it
    can trigger an epic

    mania

    to overcome the odds
    and transform failure
    into success. Say you

    swing

    as high as the chains will
    take you because you seek
    the thrill of flight, and on the

    up-

    kick, you lose your seat.
    Injury is likely. But if you
    worry about falling

    down,

    and never chance up,
    the sky will remain
    forever out of reach.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #27

    Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #28

    Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #29

    Dream bigger before you can't remember to dream at all.

  • Ellen Hopkins Quote #30

    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.

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