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
pain way needs
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.
evil accepted not-sure
I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
running wish needs
I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
growing-up grows stills
And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?
real love-is giving
The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.
father communication people
Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
rose defiance
Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!
pain weight feels
Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.
smart getting-high care
Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
dream
The love of her life dissolved into dreams.
love scary forever
But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
followers puppets
Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
letting-go eye promise
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?
over-you warning sometimes
Without Warning 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.