Ellen Hopkins Quotes

You want there to be some magical answer that will just make everything clear and easy to understand, and that's just not the way love works.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.

You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions - it's always so confusing.

I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!'

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

Every relationship has its complications.

I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.

Without really trying to, I've become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships - someone who's had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours.

I'm happy to not know what I think about stuff; I'm happy to change my mind. But it's relatively recently that I've been able to apply that to feelings. I used to like to know what I felt. I didn't want those feelings to be complicated or muddled or clashing.

It is hard to date anywhere... I think you just get a little older and hopefully a clearer idea of who you - I don't know. It is hard.

I get so many messages from people seeking advice to mend their relationship.

Love is never not going to be a problem.

One of the most overwhelming things about dating is imagining going on an entire dinner date for an evening with someone you don't even know you have chemistry with yet.

One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.

Can love be controll'd by advice?

When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.

Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.