706 Quotes by Ellen Hopkins

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.

Don’t you know? We’re connected by an invisible chain. It’s very long, very light. But also very strong. It can’t rust. Can’t break. And the only thing that can sever it is if you ever stop loving me.

Grandma once told me it’s easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it’s exactly the place I need to be.

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.

Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they’re pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

Denial is a powerful thing. It makes you believe lies.

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you’ve fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.

Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they’re not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books...