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Ellen Hopkins Inspirational Quotes (181)

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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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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.
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Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.
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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
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Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
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