Top 351 Quotes & Sayings by Ellen Hopkins - Page 5

Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve.

Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

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

She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead.

Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of morning sun sneaking through the blinds, and you think this light isn't possible. The shutters are drawn. Night should linger on. I don't feel like waking. Yet the room comes slowly lit. Sleep slithers away, and at last you can no longer deny the dawning.

I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies

When You Weren’t Looking The child became a woman, though she wasn’t ready to. Don’t ask how or why. Those questions are not important ones. Can’t you see you didn’t care enough to notice?

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

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

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?

Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.

When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.

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

i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.

I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.

How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks

I told her about the man, not my daddy, she said, He was only making you into a real girl. I didn’t understand. But I made myself believe her. I was a real girl now. But what was I before?

Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.

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.

They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.

Think of how they must have loved when all they had was each other.

I know he did horrible things in the jungle. Things no amount of alcohol or pills could erase. War stains soldiers, all the way through their psyches, into their souls. I understand that, and could almost forgive him for taking his own life, to quiet the ghosts. But I can never forgive him for taking my mother with him.

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

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.

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...?

I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?

in a woman's womb. another chance. to make the world better.

Was the fun in the fall?

I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.

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

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.

Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

Love is only found in books

I don't think we'll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun.

Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.

Forever made that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender.

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

I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.

But I so want to walk that razor's edge, Take feeling to a whole new level.

Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.

When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

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

I know I can't stay here forever

Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.

life before the monster

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.

When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through

Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?

He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.