A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane. - Ellen Hopkins
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
...Every word an author writes causes ripples, like tossing a stone into a pond. And you don't know where they'll go, or who they'll touch, or when they might come back to you. I think everything you do is kind of like that, too. - Ellen Hopkins
Once...Why...lie?...when...truth is...the easier path - Ellen Hopkins
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 sex. It's about connection. - Ellen Hopkins
Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become. - Ellen Hopkins
A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear. - Ellen Hopkins
Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things? - Ellen Hopkins
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. - Ellen Hopkins
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
The Screamingflashed me back to a timewhen mom and dad were still togetherif you could call miles apart together. - Ellen Hopkins
In a woman's womb another chance to makethe world a better place. - Ellen Hopkins
Might as Well Laugh...remember...when...Life...made...sense - Ellen Hopkins