Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
Ellen Hopkins
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Evil
Understand
Divorcing
Accepted
Already
Sure
More quotes by Ellen Hopkins
Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
Ellen Hopkins
he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
Ellen Hopkins
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
How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
Ellen Hopkins
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
When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
Ellen Hopkins
Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
Ellen Hopkins
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
Ellen Hopkins
the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
Ellen Hopkins
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
Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
Ellen Hopkins
I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
Ellen Hopkins
When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through
Ellen Hopkins
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
Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
Ellen Hopkins
Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
Ellen Hopkins
Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
Ellen Hopkins
Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
Ellen Hopkins
Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
Ellen Hopkins
How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
Ellen Hopkins