706 Quotes by Ellen Hopkins

Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.

I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?

Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you live afraid of your neighbor, the monster you should most walk in terror of thrives. It starts as a little thing, small enough to burrow into your pores, take up excruciating residence in the dark recesses of your brain. Its name is paranoia, and it spreads like an oil spill, there in the shadows, chokes your humanity. Threatens your soul.

Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.

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

Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

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?