706 Quotes by Ellen Hopkins

They say, when facing the onslaught of tooth and claw, a creature’s heart can simply quit.

So when he asked about getting high, I didn’t think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your’s and mine.

But if there is a hereafter, one my father has been welcomed into, it must be a godless wasteland.

I mean, if you’re gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don’t you? Okay, maybe not.

Flying Is that what it’s like when you die? Do you slip out of your skin, go soaring up into a butterscotch sky? Do you surf waves of light? How far? How high? I hope that’s what it’s like, but I’m afraid it’s a lot more like falling with no net to catch you, and no way of knowing how hard you will hit or where you’ll stop. Will you touch down back on Earth, or will you land in the nightmare you always feared you’d never wake up from?

I wonder how long it would take him to realize I’m right as sin – it’s the rest of the world that’s wrong. I’m not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?

Yeah, I know getting high isn’t so smart. Ask me if I care.

Some secrets can’t be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.