1. “No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away… insanity.” – Ellen Hopkins
2. “This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn’t about s*x. It’s about connection.” – Ellen Hopkins
3. “The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.” – Ellen Hopkins
4. “Satisfaction is transient – an interim state of mind.” – Ellen Hopkins
5. “Forgive myself for what, exactly, you bastard internal voice?” – Ellen Hopkins
6. “Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.” – Ellen Hopkins
7. “I can’t change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.” – Ellen Hopkins
8. “That’s what I’ll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.” – Ellen Hopkins
9. “What’s the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you’re a villain?” – Ellen Hopkins
10. “Anger requires energy, something I don’t dare waste on what cannot be altered.” – Ellen Hopkins
11. “When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.” – Ellen Hopkins
12. “Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the “blame” is on the individual.” – Ellen Hopkins
13. “When i’m with you my blood flows smoothly through” – Ellen Hopkins
14. “It’s snowing, I think. Snowing in my brain. I close my eyes, give myself up to the blizzard.” – Ellen Hopkins
15. “I’m afraid it will never be perfect again. I am indelibly stained. Forever redefined, but blurred around the edges.” – Ellen Hopkins
16. “Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they’re pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.” – Ellen Hopkins
17. “Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.” – Ellen Hopkins
18. “I mean, if you’re gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don’t you? Okay, maybe not.” – Ellen Hopkins
19. “But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like “forever.” Maybe because forever is such a scary place.” – Ellen Hopkins
20. “Having friends is one thing. Having friends who stick by you, no matter what, is everything.” – Ellen Hopkins
21. “Anger is easier than forgiveness.” – Ellen Hopkins
22. “Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.” – Ellen Hopkins
23. “A problem is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist. If you think about it, life would be kind of boring if it were completely free of friction.” – Ellen Hopkins
24. “A vacation is a poor substitute for love.” – Ellen Hopkins
25. “Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession.” – Ellen Hopkins
26. “so intense I had only one way to relieve it: a bitter drink of its very source— the deep well of the monster.” – Ellen Hopkins
27. “Maybe crazy is preferable to staying strong when you just want to break down and weep.” – Ellen Hopkins
28. “Everyone cares for me. They just don’t know how to love me.” – Ellen Hopkins
29. “Fighting Depression Is hard when you have no real reason to fight it. Why pretend everything is fine when everything pretty much sucks?” – Ellen Hopkins
30. “Would I ever find forever love? Do I really want to, when forever was a word without meaning?” – Ellen Hopkins
31. “I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.” – Ellen Hopkins
32. “She’s no longer afraid to die. What she’s afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.” – Ellen Hopkins
33. “Wishful thinking pretty much always comes back to slap you in the face.” – Ellen Hopkins
34. “Addiction is rarely conquered alone.” – Ellen Hopkins
35. “Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead.” – Ellen Hopkins
36. “They say the best things in life are worth waiting for, but patience is not my best thing.” – Ellen Hopkins
37. “Ask me, it’s a sin to pervert faith with religion.” – Ellen Hopkins
38. “I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary ‘in love’ is indefinable.” – Ellen Hopkins
39. “My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.” – Ellen Hopkins
40. “imperfections create character…” – Ellen Hopkins
41. “Love can complete you. It can also destroy you.” – Ellen Hopkins
42. “Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.” – Ellen Hopkins
43. “I know he wants to get serious. He’s definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.” – Ellen Hopkins
44. “Happiness is a bull’s-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.” – Ellen Hopkins
45. “Never say never, dear. You might be surprised at what you can do, should circumstances dictate.” – Ellen Hopkins
46. “Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.” – Ellen Hopkins
47. “Some people blunt such pain with dope or booze or a dive into madness, but I don’t have such luxuries available to me.” – Ellen Hopkins
48. “The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.” – Ellen Hopkins
49. “Forever made that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender.” – Ellen Hopkins
50. “She is madness, sanity. She is hell, and paradise.” – Ellen Hopkins
51. “The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don’t know anything.” – Ellen Hopkins
52. “Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned through all this, it’s to have faith in love.” – Ellen Hopkins
53. “Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.” – Ellen Hopkins
54. “Some people never find love at all, count yourself blessed if it ever happens your way” – Ellen Hopkins
55. “I look up again at the night sky, but here, city lights take center stage, mute the celestial backdrop. I don’t belong here, in the city.” – Ellen Hopkins
56. “BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.” – Ellen Hopkins
57. “Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.” – Ellen Hopkins
58. “Sorry. But I don’t need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.” – Ellen Hopkins
59. “A best friend is your voice when you can’t find it.” – Ellen Hopkins
60. “I do have friends, but they don’t know me, only someone I’ve created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice. I keep the melted me bottled up inside. Where no one can touch her, until, unbidden, she comes pouring out.” – Ellen Hopkins
61. “I’m in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.” – Ellen Hopkins
62. “I know I can’t stay here forever.” – Ellen Hopkins
63. “As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.” – Ellen Hopkins
64. “Puzzle pieces don’t always connect do they?” – Ellen Hopkins
65. “Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings.” – Ellen Hopkins
66. “Rules are part of our lives. Only children and fools believe they’re immune.” – Ellen Hopkins
67. “The truth is, I don’t have a real clue what love is – how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.” – Ellen Hopkins
68. “On the way back, I grab a blanket from the stash above the dryer, cover Mom to warm her dreams. Turn off the TV.” – Ellen Hopkins
69. “Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.” – Ellen Hopkins
70. “Why doesn’t love come with an owner’s manual?” – Ellen Hopkins
71. “Only you should decide for you what is perfect.” – Ellen Hopkins
72. “You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.” – Ellen Hopkins
73. “She is silk, he is leather. She is lithe, he is brawn. She is low tide, he is high. She quivers, he quakes.” – Ellen Hopkins
74. “I will not sleep tonight. I sit in the dark, staring out at the stars.” – Ellen Hopkins
75. “Taking no chances means wasting your dreams…” – Ellen Hopkins
76. “God wasn’t love, couldn’t be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.” – Ellen Hopkins
77. “The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I’d follow you across the universe.” – Ellen Hopkins
78. “Dream bigger before you can’t remember to dream at all.” – Ellen Hopkins
79. “Everyone’s afraid of everybody else…maybe because we’re all afraid of ourselves.” – Ellen Hopkins
80. “Home. What does it mean to me? Will I ever know home again?” – Ellen Hopkins
81. “Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.” – Ellen Hopkins
82. “So you try to think of someone else you’re mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.” – Ellen Hopkins
83. “When all else fails, dream bigger.” – Ellen Hopkins
84. “When you love someone, you don’t want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don’t deserve to be hurt.” – Ellen Hopkins
85. “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.” – Ellen Hopkins
86. “But how do you tell your heart, No, don’t swell with magic, you’ll only burst? How do you tell it to clamp itself off from possibilities?” – Ellen Hopkins
87. “I get so nervous when im around you i start to studder.” – Ellen Hopkins
88. “Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.” – Ellen Hopkins
89. “When you’ve only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.” – Ellen Hopkins
90. “When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.” – Ellen Hopkins
91. “Was I saved, or was fate simply too damn busy killing other people that day to catch up to me, too?” – Ellen Hopkins
92. “Love is a fragile thing, easily destroyed by dishonesty.” – Ellen Hopkins
93. “The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it’s hard to find your way out from under the heap.” – Ellen Hopkins
94. “Sometimes loving someone means letting them go” – Ellen Hopkins
95. “I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know I guess.” – Ellen Hopkins
96. “I want the part of you that you refuse to give.” – Ellen Hopkins
97. “Life is full of choices. We don’t always make good ones.” – Ellen Hopkins
98. “If you will only pause, as you hurry through your days, take a minute to look at passersby, beyond cursory skin-deep analysis, all the way into their eyes, what beauty you might find woven from the life threads there.” – Ellen Hopkins
99. “Conner was tired of the pressure. Sick of trying to find the equation that would lighten the weight of expectations not his own.” – Ellen Hopkins
100. “Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.” – Ellen Hopkins
101. “From what I’ve seen, love isn’t about mutual respect. It’s more concerns with control than sacrifice. And I wonder whether it’s better or worse when love finally walks away.” – Ellen Hopkins
102. “Happily ever after is a concept I’ll never believe in.” – Ellen Hopkins
103. “Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.” – Ellen Hopkins
104. “Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.” – Ellen Hopkins
105. “It pays to be the better predator.” – Ellen Hopkins
106. “You were a summer gift, one I’ll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I’ll never really see. You’re the best thing that will ever happen to me.” – Ellen Hopkins
107. “Love is for children and dimwads.” – Ellen Hopkins
108. “Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.” – Ellen Hopkins
109. “trust is just another five letter word, one that comes before not,” – Ellen Hopkins
110. “No rest for the wicked, which must include me.” – Ellen Hopkins
111. “I think God cares more about how you treat others than who you sleep with.” – Ellen Hopkins
112. “Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.” – Ellen Hopkins
113. “Tears well up, unbidden, and I have no chance at stopping them from falling.” – Ellen Hopkins
114. “In more ways than one, eyes are mirrors. What does it say about you if you can’t bring yourself to look into them?” – Ellen Hopkins
115. “Loss is loss. Doesn’t take death to create it.” – Ellen Hopkins
116. “The way to play a player is by making him believe, without a doubt, he has you played.” – Ellen Hopkins
117. “Your life doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you.” – Ellen Hopkins
118. “Why scramble to disguise what your personal truth is when reality not only hurts less in the long run, but is most often the easier path?” – Ellen Hopkins
119. “But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I’m not liable for my actions. So screw it, I’ll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions.” – Ellen Hopkins
120. “Her smile is like summer moonlight-beautiful and magical, with a fire that could melt the night.” – Ellen Hopkins
121. “Why look for a prince when frogs are much more common? Why reach for a dream when you’re at ease within your nightmares? Why scramble to disguise what your personal truth is when reality not only hurts less in the long run, but is most often the easier path?” – Ellen Hopkins
122. “Forever has no meaning when you’re living in the moment. I wasn’t ready for that moment to end.” – Ellen Hopkins
123. “Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.” – Ellen Hopkins
124. “The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.” – Ellen Hopkins
125. “I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they don’t. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.” – Ellen Hopkins
126. “I’d like to cry now. Don’t know how.” – Ellen Hopkins
127. “With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let’s run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.” – Ellen Hopkins
128. “Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don’t, one blink and they might disappear…forever.” – Ellen Hopkins
129. “I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.” – Ellen Hopkins
130. “I do have friends, but they don’t know me, only someone I’ve created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice.” – Ellen Hopkins
131. “Too many worries will take your pretty away.” – Ellen Hopkins
132. “It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on…” – Ellen Hopkins
133. “Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.” – Ellen Hopkins
134. “Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.” – Ellen Hopkins
135. “I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?” – Ellen Hopkins
136. “Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.” – Ellen Hopkins
137. “Whatever has happened in someone’s past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.” – Ellen Hopkins
138. “Women are inferior. And God likes it that way.” – Ellen Hopkins
139. “Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?” – Ellen Hopkins
140. “It’s not easy to get close to anyone… Everyone’s afraid of everybody else… maybe because we’re all afraid of ourselves.” – Ellen Hopkins
141. “Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn’t dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open?” – Ellen Hopkins
142. “Sometimes I’m not so sure just who I am either.” – Ellen Hopkins
143. “The worst liars are the ones everyone thinks would never ever tell a lie.” – Ellen Hopkins
144. “Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve.” – Ellen Hopkins
145. “Love is only found in books” – Ellen Hopkins
146. “The future expected you. Now it mourns for you.” – Ellen Hopkins
147. “He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.” – Ellen Hopkins
148. “Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while.” – Ellen Hopkins
149. “Without a doubt I understand the monster and I are more than just friends. We’re blood brothers.” – Ellen Hopkins
150. “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.” – Ellen Hopkins
151. “loneliness so heavy I had no idea how to lift it,” – Ellen Hopkins
152. “When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?” – Ellen Hopkins
153. “When you’re younger, a bump in the nose and a few extra pounds don’t mean much. But now they do.” – Ellen Hopkins
154. “Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.” – Ellen Hopkins
155. “let myself love him back because love is like summer. It only lasts so long.” – Ellen Hopkins
156. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” – Ellen Hopkins
157. “Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.” – Ellen Hopkins
158. “Be true to who you are – no matter who are you.” – Ellen Hopkins
159. “Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.” – Ellen Hopkins
160. “Can a dream be wrong? Aren’t dreams God’s way of telling you things?” – Ellen Hopkins
161. “You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.” – Ellen Hopkins
162. “Sometimes fate is generous. The challenge is acknowledging the gifts she offers. They are not always obvious.” – Ellen Hopkins
163. “revenge is living well with out you.” – Ellen Hopkins
164. “Violence is never right. But a man has a duty to keep his wife in check.” – Ellen Hopkins
165. “I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?” – Ellen Hopkins
166. “You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.” – Ellen Hopkins
167. “Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.” – Ellen Hopkins
168. “It was body rush After body rush, intensity building. Touch me there.” – Ellen Hopkins
169. “Pretty isn’t good enough.” – Ellen Hopkins
170. “Instinct tells me to fall deep into a well of silence. Keep your meth-fired mouth shut, it commands. [Oh, just try that with the monster screaming, Let’s party!]” – Ellen Hopkins
171. “Our past may shape us, but it doesn’t define who we become.” – Ellen Hopkins
172. “Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead.” – Ellen Hopkins
173. “The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me” – Ellen Hopkins
174. “Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.” – Ellen Hopkins
175. “imperfections create character…” – Ellen Hopkins