Ellen Hopkins Quotes

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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.

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Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.

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It was body rush After body rush, intensity building. Touch me there.

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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.

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Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

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Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.

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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn't believe

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Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows of only me. But are they empty promises? I stare into his eyes, as into a crystal ball, but I cannot find forever, only movies of yesterday, a sketchbook of today, dreams of a shared tomorrow. His eyes whisper secrets. But are they truths or fairy tales? I wonder if even he knows.

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TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.

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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.

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What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?

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Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

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Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.

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Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings

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In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.

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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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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.

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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.

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I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.

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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

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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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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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The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different.

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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life's uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?

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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.

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In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

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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?

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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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Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way. Now there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have to give it away. Keep on shining Pattyn. And when the right young man comes along, he'll love you all the more for giftin' this sad planet with your light.

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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 have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, or the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who could crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.

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