Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

Love is just a hole in the wall.

All the little emptiness of love!

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.

It's been too many nights of being with to now be suddenly without.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.

Hope without love is hopeless.

Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Love is nothing but a pain in the ass