110+ Ellen Hopkins Quotes On Education, Identity And Social Justice

Ellen Hopkins is an American novelist, poet, and essayist. She is best known for her young adult novels, which are written in a style of verse. Her novels often focus on difficult topics such as substance abuse, mental illness, and family relationships. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ellen Hopkins on life, education, identity.

Top 10 Ellen Hopkins Quotes

1. That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
2. That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
3. Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
4. Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
5. 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.
6. Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
7. Her smile is like summer moonlight-beautiful and magical, with a fire that could melt the night.
8. he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
9. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
10. Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.

Ellen Hopkins Short Quotes

• I want the part of you that you refuse to give.
• Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.
• She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
• Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
• Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.
• Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time
• ‎Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
• Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
• Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.
• Was the fun in the fall?

Ellen Hopkins Quotes About Life

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

Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity? — Ellen Hopkins

Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while — Ellen Hopkins

Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably. — Ellen Hopkins

Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices. — Ellen Hopkins

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house. — Ellen Hopkins

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. — Ellen Hopkins

life before the monster — Ellen Hopkins

Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time. — Ellen Hopkins

...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live. — Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quotes About Love

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 — Ellen Hopkins

...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? — Ellen Hopkins

You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars. — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe. — Ellen Hopkins

I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable. — Ellen Hopkins

When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin? — Ellen Hopkins

Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation. — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions. — Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quotes About Writing

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds. — Ellen Hopkins

I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me. — Ellen Hopkins

Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come. — Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Quotes About Emotional

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

Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions. — Ellen Hopkins

Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves. — Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Famous Quotes And Sayings

And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie. — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me. — Ellen Hopkins

It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you. — Ellen Hopkins

The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be. — Ellen Hopkins

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

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain. — Ellen Hopkins

I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know I guess. — Ellen Hopkins

I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair; toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins. — Ellen Hopkins

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall? — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into encompassing stillness far away from city dirt and noise Far above suburban gridlock. Far beyond the grasp of home. — Ellen Hopkins

Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority. — Ellen Hopkins

I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go? — Ellen Hopkins

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear. — Ellen Hopkins

you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD — Ellen Hopkins

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power. — Ellen Hopkins

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye. — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

If all you can promise me is today, I'll take it and hope for tomorrow. — Ellen Hopkins

I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266) — Ellen Hopkins

Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God. — Ellen Hopkins

I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived? — Ellen Hopkins

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? — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love. — Ellen Hopkins

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

Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you. Sometimes you dont wake up. But if you happen to you know things will never be the same. Sometimes that's not so bad. Sometimes lives instersect, no rhyme, no reason, except, perhaps, for a passing semi. — Ellen Hopkins

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469) — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead. — Ellen Hopkins

I swallow any sort of apology. "screwing your neighbor." There. Said it. React, okay? pregnant pause becomes three weeks overdue. Four weeks. Time for a C-section. What? Oh, Kaeleigh, I'm so sorry. Are you sure...? — Ellen Hopkins

I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all? — Ellen Hopkins

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there. — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

I get so nervous when im around you i start to studder — Ellen Hopkins

When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can. — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more. — Ellen Hopkins

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?" -346 — Ellen Hopkins

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out. — Ellen Hopkins

I'd sleep outside naked in the blizzard,for you. — Ellen Hopkins

Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again. — Ellen Hopkins

My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create. — Ellen Hopkins

Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you — Ellen Hopkins

Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they? — Ellen Hopkins

Home ...Home. ...the word, ...has ...no ...meaning — Ellen Hopkins

I'd like to cry now. Don't know how. — Ellen Hopkins

Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say. — Ellen Hopkins

BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar. — Ellen Hopkins

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

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

Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in. — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow. — Ellen Hopkins

So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made me despise the girl in the mirror enough to transform her,turn her to into a stranger, only not. So you want to hear the whole story. Why I swerved off the high road, hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to those coughing my dust, picked up speed no limits,no top end, just a high velocity rush to madness. — Ellen Hopkins

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. — Ellen Hopkins

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up? — Ellen Hopkins

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted. — Ellen Hopkins

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered. — Ellen Hopkins

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy. — Ellen Hopkins

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

I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user. — Ellen Hopkins

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? — Ellen Hopkins

It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry. — Ellen Hopkins

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted. — Ellen Hopkins

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? — Ellen Hopkins

Addiction is rarely conquered alone. — Ellen Hopkins

hindsight is gained through experience — Ellen Hopkins

Life Lessons by Ellen Hopkins

1. Ellen Hopkins teaches us that it is important to be honest and open about our emotions and experiences, even if it is difficult.
2. She also shows us that it is possible to find strength and resilience in the face of adversity.
3. Lastly, her work encourages us to be kind and understanding to those around us, no matter how different they may be.