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61 " I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted. "
― Ellen Hopkins , Identical
62 " In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings. "
― Ellen Hopkins , Burned (Burned, #1)
63 " Funny thing about the monster.The worse he treats you, the more you love him. "
― Ellen Hopkins , Crank (Crank, #1)
64 " Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too. "
65 " Does wanting to die equal losing your mind? "
― Ellen Hopkins , Impulse (Impulse, #1)
66 " Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do. "
― Ellen Hopkins , Fallout (Crank, #3)
67 " Empty is the perfect state of being. Nothing inside to anchor you. Nothing inside to chain you down, keep you from living your dreams. Empty, almost weightless, you are an eyelash afloat on a blink of breeze. You can rise about tension and worry, loosed from the grip of gravity. Adrift in thermal lift, you ride the wing of freedom and soar. Empty, you are Eve in Eden. Empty, you are what you were meant to be. "
― Ellen Hopkins
68 " Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet. "
69 " Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit. "
― Ellen Hopkins , Perfect (Impulse, #2)
70 " 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 , Tilt
71 " I blamed the Bible,when its words were not at fault,only the way they’re interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws,cutting others off at the knees. "
― Ellen Hopkins , Rumble
72 " I don’t know449that much about the Bible, other than it waswritten thousands of years ago, which dilutesits relevance. However, I know its faithfulfollowers tend to cherry-pick verses to suittheir needs, the same way they cherry-pickwords or scenes from other books to labelobscene. "
73 " I keep hearing that love isn't a logical emotion. Should I worry about that? "
74 " I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most. "
75 " Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home? "
76 " Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us, if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away? "
77 " We kissed for aboutthe thousandth time,No promises,no demands,Just solid rebuildingof shattered trust. "
78 " One kiss, I was totally hooked. "
― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)
79 " Our kiss eclipses all others, real, imagine, dreamed of. It is the beginning of time, it is the end of the ages. "
80 " For a long while. Finally she says, I don't believe in love. Not sure it really exists, but even if it does for some people, it won't for me. She is serious. Then she lightens up. But, hey, if you think you love me, cool. "