Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

I've tried to write in a way that transcends beyond just sexuality and is more about letting go of our fear and trusting the people around us.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind...."Trust me," Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

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.

I believe love opens people up.

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

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.

I cannot just blindly love someone.