706 Quotes by Ellen Hopkins

When all else fails, dream bigger.

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

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

You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.

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

Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

Might as Well Laugh ...remember ...when ...Life ...made ...sense