Quote

Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.

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
Feel
Alex
Feels
Soap
Even
Touching
Believe
Dirty
Things
Leaves
Think
Says
Washes
Thinking
Doe
Indelible
Without
Stains

More quotes by Ellen Hopkins

Image
Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
Ellen Hopkins
Image
You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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
Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.
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
The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
Ellen Hopkins