Ellen Hopkins Quotes

I have so much love that I didn't even know about.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.

Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

The fact that people don't like me doesn't bother me.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird... 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so... if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about.

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.