Quote

One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.

Ellen Hopkins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Front
Blur
Feet
Smiles
Focus
Painted
Faces
Counting
Floor
Foot
Fake
Fronts
Tiles

More quotes by Ellen Hopkins

Image
Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Girls are impossible to satisfy. Not every girl. Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
One kiss, I was totally hooked.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
Ellen Hopkins
Image
You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? -346
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
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)
Ellen Hopkins