Ellen Hopkins Quotes - Page 10

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• 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.

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  Mother, War, Psych

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• Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

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  Pain, Eye, Arrows

  Ellen Hopkins (2015). “Smoke”, p.469, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Pain, Heart, Eye

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• in a woman's womb. another chance. to make the world better.

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  World, Another Chance, Chance

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.

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  Want, Good Things, Deserve

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• I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.

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  Book, Writing, Important

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• The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

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  Revenge, Believe, Thinking

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

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  Believe, Hitting, Pages

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• I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.

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  Done, Demand, Plans

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• I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

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  Writing, Years, Together

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• I don't love him, & he definitely doesn't love me. Still, he semi-fills a gaping black hole inside me. That place wants love, maybe even needs love, but love is something I"m pretty sure doesn't exist.

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  Love Is, Black, Needs

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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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• Think of how they must have loved when all they had was each other.

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  Thinking

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

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  Needed, Whole, Knows

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

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  Heart, Butterfly, Nectar

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.26, 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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• I want to know living love. And I don't want to wait for it.

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  Waiting, Want, Knows

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• Would I drown saving him?

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  Saving

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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  Pain, Heart, Funny Things

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

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• Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in.

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  Believe, Ever After, Happily Ever After

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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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