Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!

I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.

I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.“ She nods her head slowly. „What do you think you‘d look like?” “Smaller, for a start.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.