Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Louise Hopkinsis a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth26 March 1955
CityLong Beach, CA
CountryUnited States of America
letting-go eye promise
I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go?
followers puppets
Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
sorry defining needs
Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
struggle mouths nuclear
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
character perfect incredibles
She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
confused intelligent sky
I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared. Confused by the whys. Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away? (358)
heart kissing forever
It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
voice
A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
falling-in-love lying love-is
The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
lying tilt mouths
And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.
special world realizing
But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
hurt way protect-you
Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
girl littles impossible
Girls are impossible to satisfy." "Not every girl." Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
home wings suffering
Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?