Ellen Hopkins Quotes - Page 7

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• If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?

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  Men, Crowds, Arms

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• Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

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  Evil

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.474, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Happiness, Believe, Book

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Burned”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.

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  Hate, Love Is, Fiction

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• 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.

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  Fun, Would Be, Stuff

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

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  Fun, Thinking, Half

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• It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)

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  Feel Good, Feels, Knows

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Might, Never Say Never, Should

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• Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.

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  Father, Communication, People

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Years, Giving

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.675, Simon and Schuster

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• You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

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  Book, Happy Endings, Sleight Of Hand

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Burned”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Knows

  Ellen Hopkins (2010). “Fallout”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

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  Running, Monsters

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• hindsight is gained through experience

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  Hindsight

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• Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

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  Rose, Defiance

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.

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  Thinking, Waiting, Mind

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• 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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  Daughter, School, Snow

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

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  Memories, Rainbow, Cameras

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

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  Nice, Boys, Two

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are vague and yesterday seems to come tied up in ribbons of pain. Happiness? I look for it intead in today, where memory is something I can still touch, still rely on. I find it in the smiles of new friends, the hope blossoming inside. My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

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  Memories, Pain, Past

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• Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?

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  Sweet, Memories, Too Much

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.498, Simon and Schuster

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• I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.

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  Needed, Whole, Knows

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• 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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  Ocean, People, Pretty Woman

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Special, World, Realizing

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