Quote

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

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
Events
Sharing
Friends
Holiday
Family
Event
Wrapping
White
Mostly
Gathered
Away
Christmas
Everything
Favorite
Presents
Love
Inspired
Traditions
Tradition
Hoping

More quotes by 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
Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.
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
I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Anger is easier than forgiveness.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
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
Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
When all else fails, dream bigger.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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
Image
Was the fun in the fall?
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