706 Quotes by Ellen Hopkins

GhostsTake shape under moonlight,materialize in dreams.Shadows. Silhouettesof what is no more. Butghosts don'tbother me. The day bringsbigger things to worry aboutthan flimsy remains ofyesterday. No, spooks don'tscare me.Gauzy apparitions mightprank your psyche oragitate your nightmares,but lackingflesh and bloodthey are powerlessto hurt you-cannot hopeto inflict the kind of damagethat real, livepeople do.

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

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.

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..

Not sure there's been a single day of my life when everything was totally fine. And now? The best I can say is once in a while I'm not somersaulting in chaos.

Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

...I think the moreshe has failed at things like relationshipsand parenting, the more she has cutherself off from feeling bad about thosethings. And if you don't let yourself feelbad, sooner or later you stop feelinggood, too. You insulate yourself. Buildup layers, like stacking paper, everythinggrowing heavier. And when the weightbecomes too much, those layers compress.Become hard. Sad, really, to think thatKristina has turned herself into cardboard.