Quotes by Ellen Hopkins

About Ellen Hopkins:

Ellen Louise Hopkins is a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience.
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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.

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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.

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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 h...

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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you...

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Might as Well Laugh ...remember ...when ...Life ...made ...sense

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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

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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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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

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

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Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions ...

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I love the way she feels in the curve of my arm. I love her unpretentious beauty, her intelligence, her nerve. But could I ever love her? The concept of falling in love is completely foreign, something I can’t bring myself to accept. Her hair pillo...

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

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Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace. I am a snowflake. A wisp of eiderdown, liberated from gravity. My body is light. Ephemeral. My head is light....

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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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Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

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No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

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Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.

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

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I think if love is real, and headed toward the altar, the sex part-within reason-can wait.

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...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.

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Author Bio

  • NameEllen Hopkins
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMarch 26, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist