Quotes from Ellen Hopkins

Would I ever find forever love? Do I really want to, when forever was a word without meaning?

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind... ...but he won't.

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.

Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.

I don't believe in God, don't believe in the devil. Unless you want to count my mother. She might be Satan's sister, I suppose.

I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.

I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.

You have a special place in the world. All you have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, on the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who would crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.