Identical QUOTES

2 " In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses.

At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home.

And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Identical

4 " 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

6 " In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Identical

8 " It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Identical

10 " I Want to Shout
Leave me alone!
What's wrong with you?
Don't you remember who I am?
Who you are?
This is not a father's love! I want to scream,
Can't you see what
you are doing to me?
What you've done to me?
What you've made of me?
I want to cry out,
I am your little girl.
I am not your girlfriend.
I am not your whore.
I am not my fucking mother! But he is on top of me and my shout is silenced.
He is inside of me and my scream stays there too.
He is finished.
And I don't cry out,
but I do cry a bucket of silent tears. He slithers
away and at last,
I quietly sob "

― Ellen Hopkins , Identical

12 " Or might the soul clone itself,
create a perfect imitation
of something yet to be
defined? In this way,
can a reflection be altered? "

― Ellen Hopkins , Identical

14 " Ian's sense of right and wrong overwhelms me.
Not a single other person .... I know
possesses such an unshakable sense of morality.
Its more than unbelievable. It's frightening.
To offer without strings something all men crave,
and be rejected by him is incomprehensible.
Think I'll have to kick Kaeleigh's ass.
Does she have any idea what it means .... to be
so treasured? He has built a pedestal for her so tall
that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall
would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise
far, far beyond fear. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Identical

16 " Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling.
Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Identical

18 " I want the part of you that you refuse to give. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Identical

20 " Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in. "

― Ellen Hopkins , Identical