Ellen Hopkins Quotes

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.

I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.

I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Once you are born with a handicap, even if the handicap is resolved - as it was in my case - you are left with the benefit of having had it. By contrast, my mother - who had nothing bad happen to her - was a very disabled person. She was an appalling human being who squandered every blessing that God had given her.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

My old mind hadn’t been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I’d brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisle’s compassion and Esme’s devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. I could live with that.

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?