Quote

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

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
Years
Anyway
Like
Putting
Poetry
World
Fiction
Write
Together
Best
Writing
Worlds

More quotes by 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
empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
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
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
I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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
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
Image
Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
Ellen Hopkins
Image
Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
Ellen Hopkins
Image
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
Image
Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
Ellen Hopkins