Ellen Hopkins Quotes - Page 6

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• Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.

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  Coyotes, Hunts, Packs

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses. At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home. And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness.

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  Beautiful, Mom, Morning

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• I can see why she feels left behind. Maybe even discarded. Is that why she refuses to accept my love and return it? Afraid that love doesn't last? Doesn't really exist? Afraid if her own father can withdraw his love (or at least the manifestation of his love), that maybe she somehow isn't worthy of the emotion?

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  Father, His Love, Lasts

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Girl, Believe, Moving

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

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• Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.

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  Winter, Love Is, Fever

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults we want to believe things like sex abuse or drug use are not happening anymore, or happening less and less, but that's not the case and we need to acknowledge that. We can't make life prettier for youth, but we can arm them.

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  Sex, Believe, Book

  Source: ncac.org

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• 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.

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  Dream, Hurt, Real

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

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• How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

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  Fun, Fall, Feet

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.

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  Strong, Queens, Mean

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

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  Fun, Would Be, Stuff

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• But I so want to walk that razor's edge, Take feeling to a whole new level.

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  Feelings, Razors, Levels

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• Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.

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  Light, Shining, Care

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Burned”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of morning sun sneaking through the blinds, and you think this light isn't possible. The shutters are drawn. Night should linger on. I don't feel like waking. Yet the room comes slowly lit. Sleep slithers away, and at last you can no longer deny the dawning.

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  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.617, Simon and Schuster

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• I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

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  Baby, Daddy, Evil

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• revenge is living well with out you.

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  Revenge, Live Well, Wells

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• No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

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  Love You, Bye, Who You Know

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• hindsight is gained through experience

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  Hindsight

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• Never say never, dear. You might be surprised at what you can do, should circumstances dictate

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  Might, Never Say Never, Should

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• The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

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  Knows

  Ellen Hopkins (2010). “Fallout”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.

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  Father, Communication, People

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.

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  Thinking, Years, Giving

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.675, Simon and Schuster

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• Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.

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  Land, Culture, Earth

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.577, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

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  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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• Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

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  Rose, Defiance

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?

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  Men, Crowds, Arms

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