Ellen Hopkins Quotes

I felt abandoned at a young age. That's where most of my anger came from, I guess.

I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child.

I suspect I wasn't loved enough as a child.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.

She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.

I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.