Ellen Hopkins Quotes

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The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me

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Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.

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Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.

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Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

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As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

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Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

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Can't promise I'll stay. That would be lying. And I'm so, so tired of lies.

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When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.

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Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.

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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?

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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

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Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.

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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.

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Girls are impossible to satisfy." "Not every girl." Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.

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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.

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Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.

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Her smile is like summer moonlight-beautiful and magical, with a fire that could melt the night.

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Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are powerless to hurt you-cannot hope to inflict the kind of damage that real, live people do.

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So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

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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?

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The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?

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Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?

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Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.

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