Quote

She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.

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
Imperfections
Imperfection
Incredible
Create
Perfect
Character

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
Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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
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
THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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
Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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
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
There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
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
Image
Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
I don't love him, & he definitely doesn't love me. Still, he semi-fills a gaping black hole inside me. That place wants love, maybe even needs love, but love is something Im pretty sure doesn't exist.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
Ellen Hopkins