Ellen Hopkins Quotes

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.

I think I know the feeling of 'liking' someone, but I don't know what it means to 'love.'

Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

You can be cocky and confident, but when you start developing feelings for someone, suddenly your self-esteem drops a bit.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.