Ellen Hopkins Quotes
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Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while
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BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.
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in a woman's womb. another chance. to make the world better.
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I don't love him, & he definitely doesn't love me. Still, he semi-fills a gaping black hole inside me. That place wants love, maybe even needs love, but love is something I"m pretty sure doesn't exist.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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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.
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Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.
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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead.
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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve.
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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A Problem Is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist.
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Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the "blame" is on the individual.
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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Love is only found in books
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My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.
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i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.
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Do you know how beautiful you are?' I shook my head 'I'm not. But you make me fell like I am.' I wanted to be beautiful. To him. For him. I didn't care how anybody else saw me. Only Ethan.
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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.
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Face red, but brave in spite of it, Ethan offered an even smaller box. My hands shook as i opened it. Set in a gold promise ring, three small diamonds glittered. One for you, one for me, one for us, he said sweetly. I love you.
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.
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...what good would it do to shutter your windows, never dream of rainbows or find hope in promises? Why choose to walk away rather than hold your ground and fight for love?
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It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.
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