Quotes by Ellen Hopkins

Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.

What we strive for, ultimately, is love. You wont find real love because youre beautiful on the outside. It is drawn to inner beauty. Spend your energy crafting that, and you will know true love.

Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead.

I love the way she feels inthe curve of my arm. I loveher unpretentious beauty,her intelligence, her nerve.But could I ever love her?The concept of falling in loveis completely foreign, somethingI can’t bring myself to accept. Her hair pillows my cheek and her hand on my leg is warm. I care about you, Conner, and I hate to see you hurting. I want to respond but can’tfind the pretty words I need.

The things they say!A truck driver would blush.I would never talk that wayto Trevor he walks on water.I want him to think I do too.For a while, he did, or at leasthe pretended to.I did things with TrevorI wouldnt dare to confessto anyone—things I didntknow anyone did.But he wanted me to,so I did. Thats what you dowhen you love someone,right?

Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

The Screamingflashed me back to a timewhen mom and dad were still togetherif you could call miles apart together.

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.

...Every word an author writes causes ripples, like tossing a stone into a pond. And you dont know where theyll go, or who theyll touch, or when they might come back to you. I think everything you do is kind of like that, too.

Sometimes,you dont wake up.But if you happento, you know thingswill never bethe same.

We used to do coke, till Just Say No put the stuff out of reach. Now its crank. Meth. The monster. Its a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.

Aloneeverything changes.Some might call it distorted realitybut its exactly the place I need to be.

When You Werent Looking...why....Cant you...care...more...about...me.

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

Possibilities...in the closet...itching...to break out...but afraid of...the fallout

Faces...I...dont...know...the real...me

Have to Find...life...is...a—...gamble...after ...all.

Ill Stay...leave...me....Ill...follow...you.

It was the exact oppositefor me. At first all Iwanted was sex with her,but soon I wanted more.More sex, yes, in unusualplaces, and all different kinds.But that wasn’t all. I wantedher to fill the empty spacesleft by a father who neveronce praised me, ‘friends’ whoused me, an ice princess momwho raised me with glass kisses.

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