Quotes About Ellen Hopkins

#1. Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)

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#2. The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all the things you'd rather not say, at least not in mixed company. (Ellen Hopkins)

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#3. Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme of every book is the same
profound change. The big question became, could I live with that kind of change?

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#4. But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.

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#5. You know how they say revenge is best served up cold? I'd say it's best not served up at all. Revenge is a great motivator, but it doesn't help achieve the desired results. I've seen guys lose buddies, then go off half-cocked, piss fuel running through their veins. Things never turned out well.

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#6. The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.

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#7. Trust is just another five letter word, one that comes before not,

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

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#9. Love isn't supposed to be selfish.

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#10. I hope I'm never a mom. But if I am, I'll make damn sure my kids look up to me.

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#11. Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

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#12. Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for

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#13. Then teach me how to not care about someone who was everything to me. All I want is to know she's okay. Is that too much to ask?

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#14. One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.

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#15. Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize.

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#16. The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.

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#17. Say a Hail Mary for me. I could use some forgiveness.

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#18. Change doesn't come
without invitation.
You won't discover it in
routine. And you won't
create an all-new and better you if you wait for someone else
to give you permission. Transformation begins -
and ends - inside of you.

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#19. Would I drown saving him?

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#20. The not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

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#21. Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

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#22. Without a doubt I understand the monster and I are more than just friends. We're blood brothers.

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#23. I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

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#24. Do you know how beautiful you are?' I shook my head 'I'm not. But you make me fell like I am.' I wanted to be beautiful. To him. For him. I didn't care how anybody else saw me. Only Ethan.

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#25. Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

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#26. Love isn't invincible. Some people take advantage of that.

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#27. Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.

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#28. Who do they become when night descends, a cool puff of smoke, and vampires come out to party?

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#29. I know I can't stay here forever

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#30. Love is just another word for sex.

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#31. Why is mania bad, if it means you're on top of the world, where everything is white? Bright.

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#32. Anger is easier than forgiveness.

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#33. You fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD

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#34. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

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#35. 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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#36. The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap.

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#37. Raining radiation on this ozone-deprived planet. The only thing she ever longed for was short-lived love.

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#38. The monster will forever speak
to me. An today,
it's calling me out the door.

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#39. Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while

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#40. I swallow any sort of apology.
"screwing your neighbor."
There. Said it. React, okay?
pregnant pause becomes three
weeks overdue. Four weeks.
Time for a C-section. What?
Oh, Kaeleigh, I'm so sorry.
Are you sure ... ?

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#41. You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me?
You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.

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#42. Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control.

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#43. Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

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#44. I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

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#45. 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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#46. Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.

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#47. Love is a pain in disguise, a scorpion lying in wait for just the right moment to strike and inject you with its poison before scuttling off into the shadows.

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#48. I think God cares more about how you treat others than who you sleep with.

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#49. Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.

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#50. I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.

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#51. Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.

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#52. I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.

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#53. It pays to be the better predator.

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#54. And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

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#55. I have to tell him how much i miss him when he's not here. So I snug my face against his pulse in his neck. "I love you" I wait, barely about to breathe. He tightens his arms around me. "I know, and how luck that makes me." I watch him go, wondering just what the fuck that meant to me.

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#56. He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.

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#57. I get so nervous when im around you i start to studder

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#58. Holy effing moly.

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#59. I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.

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#60. Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

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#61. No matter how much things change,
others never will.

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#62. Oh, how I wish that I could give him what Daddy takes so easily from me. But it would be a tainted gift. Sadness now, and I wonder how it feels to live without a constant fog of sorrow, a breeze of loneliness.

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#63. 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.

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#64. I've been alone since my mom met Scott.
He sucked the nectar from her heart
like a famished butterfly. No nurture,
no nourishment left for Kristina.
A vacation is a poor substitute
for love.

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#65. Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.

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#66. And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.

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#67. Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably.

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#68. Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

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#69. I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.

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#70. Mistakes are easy to come by. Why make the same one twice?

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#71. It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.

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#72. 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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#73. Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

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#74. I wanted to meet the monster.
Why go down if you can go up?

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#75. Home

...Home.
...the word,
...has
...no
...meaning

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#76. He sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.

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#77. When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

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#78. Love is for children and dimwads.

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#79. Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

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#80. the past will influence your future, but it doesn't have to destroy it.

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#81. Always act like a lady in front of closed doors. Never show emotion if it means risking your power.

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#82. Only you should decide for you what is perfect.

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#83. I want to be stunned by passion so intense it knocks me right off my feet, down to my knees, where I know I'll surrender to this luscious insanity.

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#84. Aunt J, I've begged for love for seventeen years. Without you, I would never have found it.

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#85. Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead.

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#86. The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.

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#87. Long trip, long day, no thanks, I'll stay. Okay.

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#88. As I thought
about that, I had
to wonder: What will we
know better about tomorrow?
Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

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#89. Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you're jungle fever. The next you're Artic winter.

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#90. Violence is never right. But a man has a duty to keep his wife in check.

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#91. Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.

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#92. Satisfaction is transient - an interim state of mind.

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#93. My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

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#94. You want to shout, can't you see I'm here? Can't you see I'm brand new? Can't you see me at all?

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#95. Never say never, dear.
You might be surprised at what you can do, should circumstances dictate

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#96. Love is strange. One minute you're jungle fever. The next you're Arctic winter.

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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. Is this overwhelming attraction really mutual, or is my believing that just a sign of impending insanity? Is my lunacy on the horizon, or is already here?

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#100. Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.

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