Ellen Hopkins Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love You, Heart, Wings

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sweet, Sex, Heart

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.669, Simon and Schuster

• Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Thinking, Offering

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Collateral: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Heart, Way

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

• God is love," she said. "And he respects love, whether it's between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends. I don't think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Love with all your heart. Don't hurt others, and help those in need. That is all you need to know. And don't worry about heaven. If it exists, you'll be welcome.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hurt, Children, Heart

• Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for. The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true. The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricot when the peach blushes and bruises. These things make me believe God's a man after all.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Believe, Moving

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

• Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart, in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love. Pain. Jealousy. Guilt. I wonder if it’s the same for people, lost in comas. Is there really such a thing

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Heart, Funny Things

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

• he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Butterfly, Nectar

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

• Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind... ...but he won't.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dad, Heart, Thinking

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

• crawling up into daddy's lap when dad was still DADDY nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heart LISTENING to the thump...thump somewhere beneath muscle and breastbone I remember his arms their sublime ENCIRCLING and the shawdow of his voice "I love you, little girl. Put away your bad dreams. Daddy's here" I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that came HOME from work everyday and instead of picking me up, chased me far far away

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Dream, Dad

• Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, My Heart, Certain

• Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Hands, Touching

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Kissing, Forever

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

• Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Two, Yesterday

• 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.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Wall, Heart, Perfect

• Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Speechless

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Collateral: A Novel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

• It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Kissing, Forever

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

• Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Heart, Eye

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