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
opposites heaven stripes
Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.
lying giving loving-you
He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.
pain way needs
Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.
accepting status-quo dies
She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
love-you said
Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
mom wall mean
Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.
smart getting-high care
Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
love scary forever
But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
realms
In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.
angel skins demon
Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
corpses
God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
girl men years
I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
dream failing bigger
When all else fails, dream bigger.
waste energy dare
Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.