Quotes from Ellen Hopkins, Burned

in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.

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?

But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

I thought he'd run if he knew. Instead, he offered help, not that I believed he could possibly help. I thought he'd turn his back, close his heart, slink away. Instead, he promised sanctuary.

I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever". Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last.

I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.