Ellen Hopkins Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Hate, Past

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

• Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Real, Lying, Book

• Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows of only me. But are they empty promises? I stare into his eyes, as into a crystal ball, but I cannot find forever, only movies of yesterday, a sketchbook of today, dreams of a shared tomorrow. His eyes whisper secrets. But are they truths or fairy tales? I wonder if even he knows.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Lying, Eye

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Believe, Forever

• All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Memories, Lying

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

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Tired, Promise

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.615, Simon and Schuster

• He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Giving, Hopeful

• The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Falling In Love, Lying, Love Is

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

• Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Path, Truth Is

• And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Tilt, Mouths

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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