Quote

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

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
Kind
Unshakable
Merciful
Higher
Nice
Belief
Power
Must

More quotes by Ellen Hopkins

Image
Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
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.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Anger is easier than forgiveness.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
Ellen Hopkins
Image
But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)
Ellen Hopkins
Image
You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
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
Image
I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
Ellen Hopkins
Image
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?
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
You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
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.
Ellen Hopkins