Ellen Hopkins Quotes About Ghosts

Quotes about: Ghosts

• The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Skeletons, Wind, Stronger

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

• 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 might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are powerless to hurt you-cannot hope to inflict the kind of damage that real, live people do.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Hurt, Real

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mother, War, Psych

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

  Ellen Hopkins

  Blood, People, Scare

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

• But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Bullshit, Ghost, Life Is

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.656, Simon and Schuster

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