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
mean kids thinking
When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.
strong light long
Don't you know? We're connected by an invisible chain. It's very long, very light. But also very strong. It can't rust. Can't break. And the only thing that can sever it is if you ever stop loving me.
lows equal
Every high has an equal, measurable low.
killing changed killing-myself
Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
perfect concrete incomparable
Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
needs problem reason
A Problem Is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist.
dream mean want
I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
father his-love lasts
I can see why she feels left behind. Maybe even discarded. Is that why she refuses to accept my love and return it? Afraid that love doesn't last? Doesn't really exist? Afraid if her own father can withdraw his love (or at least the manifestation of his love), that maybe she somehow isn't worthy of the emotion?
blood people scare
Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
choices take-a-chance ifs
Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.
addiction
Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
goodbye love-you self
You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.
would-be stories
Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.