you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD Ellen Hopkins More Quotes by Ellen Hopkins More Quotes From Ellen Hopkins Pretty That's what I am, I guess. I mean, people have been telling me that's what I am since I was two. Maybe younger. Pretty as a picture. (Who wants to be a cliché?) Pretty as an angel. (Can you see them?) Pretty as a butterfly. (But isn't that really just a glam bug?) Cliché, invisible, or insectlike, I grew up knowing I was pretty and believing everything good about me had to do with how I looked. The mirror was my best friend. Until it started telling me I wasn't really pretty enough. Ellen Hopkins butterfly mean believe Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do. Ellen Hopkins scare blood people Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you. Ellen Hopkins chance choices ifs She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense. Ellen Hopkins curves perfect together Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of morning sun sneaking through the blinds, and you think this light isn't possible. The shutters are drawn. Night should linger on. I don't feel like waking. Yet the room comes slowly lit. Sleep slithers away, and at last you can no longer deny the dawning. Ellen Hopkins sleep morning night Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it. Ellen Hopkins queens strong mean Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again. Ellen Hopkins doors past rooms I told her about the man, not my daddy, she said, He was only making you into a real girl. I didn’t understand. But I made myself believe her. I was a real girl now. But what was I before? Ellen Hopkins girl real believe 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 someone-you-love scar want When You Weren’t Looking The child became a woman, though she wasn’t ready to. Don’t ask how or why. Those questions are not important ones. Can’t you see you didn’t care enough to notice? Ellen Hopkins care important children Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead. Ellen Hopkins blind brain love-is When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival. Ellen Hopkins taken games life I know I can't stay here forever Ellen Hopkins i-can knows forever Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry. Ellen Hopkins make-me-laugh cry laughing As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless. Ellen Hopkins who-cares useless tomorrow Was the fun in the fall? Ellen Hopkins crank fun fall I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams. Ellen Hopkins dream want mean Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains. Ellen Hopkins believe dirty thinking God is love," she said. "And he respects love, whether it's between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends. I don't think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Love with all your heart. Don't hurt others, and help those in need. That is all you need to know. And don't worry about heaven. If it exists, you'll be welcome. Ellen Hopkins hurt heart children I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived? Ellen Hopkins finding-love space home
