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
Ellen Hopkins quotes about
octopus trying ordinary
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)
lows equal
Every high has an equal, measurable low.
silhouettes
That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
spring long mind
I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
someone-you-love want scar
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.
useless care tomorrow
As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.
coyotes packs hunts
Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.
over-you wake-up sometimes
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.
deception mouths likes
The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all the things you'd rather not say, at least not in mixed company." (Ellen Hopkins)
monsters wanted ifs
I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
marijuana thinking california
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.
killing changed killing-myself
Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
daddy made fine
And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
grandma easy
Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.