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Tricks (Tricks, #1) QUOTES

Tricks (Tricks, #1) QUOTES

1 " When You Weren't Looking

...why.
...Can't you
...care
...more
...about
...me. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

2 " Faces

...I
...don't
...know
...the real
...me "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

3 " Have to Find

...life
...is
...a—
...gamble
...after
...all. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

4 " I'll Stay

...leave
...me.
...I'll
...follow
...you. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

5 " Home

...Home.
...the word,
...has
...no
...meaning "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

6 " One kiss, I was totally hooked. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

7 " I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I've tried to ignore it, but it won't go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don't have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I'll never ask again. It's in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

8 " Some people
Never find the right kind of love
you know, the kind that steals
your breath away.
Like diving into a snowmelt.
The kind that jolts your heart,
sets it beating apace.
An anxious hiccuping of hummingbirds wings.
The kind that makes every terrible minute apart feel like hours.
Days.
Years.
Some people flit from one insane possibility to the next.
Never experincing the connection of two people.
rocked by destiny.
Never knowing what it means to love someone else,
more than themselves.
More than life itself, or the promise of something better.
Beyond this world,
More even (forgive me!) than god.
Lucky me, I found the right kind of love.
With the wrong person. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

9 " Eyes Tell Stories
But do they know how
to craft fiction? Do
they know how to spin
lies?
His eyes swear forever,
flatter with vows of only
me. But are they empty
promises?
I stare into his eyes, as
into a crystal ball, but
I cannot find forever,
only
movies of yesterday,
a sketchbook of today,
dreams of a shared
tomorrow.
His eyes whisper secrets.
But are they truths or fairy tales?
I wonder if even he
knows. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

10 " 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 , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

11 " 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 , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

12 " Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

13 " I don’t belong here. I know that. But I don’t belong anywhere else, either. And that is at the heart of the black depression pressing down on me, flattening me. I have no place. No home. Sex, but no real affection. I am kept, but not cherished. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

14 " When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

15 " Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

16 " 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 , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

17 " Hell isn’t some fiery pit “down there.” It’s right here on Earth, in every dirty city, every yawning town. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

18 " If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are? "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

19 " And if we're truly one, how will I breathe when circumstance pries us apart? You are my oxygen, my sustenance, the blood inside my veins. When we touch, you are my skin, hold all my joy inside of you. When you go, I wither. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)

20 " I hope I'm never a mom. But if I am, I'll make damn sure my kids look up to me. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)