Quote

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

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
Love
Eroded
Corrupted
Nightmare
Innocence
Touch

More quotes by Ellen Hopkins

Image
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
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.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies
Ellen Hopkins
Image
He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
When all else fails, dream bigger.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Anger is easier than forgiveness.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
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.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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
Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time
Ellen Hopkins