01UndatedNow that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
02UndatedHonesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
04UndatedThe problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
05UndatedI blamed the Bible,when its words were not at fault,only the way they’re interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws,cutting others off at the knees.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
06UndatedI don’t know449that much about the Bible, other than it waswritten thousands of years ago, which dilutesits relevance. However, I know its faithfulfollowers tend to cherry-pick verses to suittheir needs, the same way they cherry-pickwords or scenes from other books to labelobscene.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
07UndatedI keep hearing that love isn't a logical emotion. Should I worry about that?Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
08UndatedI felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
09UndatedDo you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
10UndatedWhy are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us, if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away?Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
11UndatedWe kissed for aboutthe thousandth time,No promises,no demands,Just solid rebuildingof shattered trust.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
13UndatedOur kiss eclipses all others, real, imagine, dreamed of. It is the beginning of time, it is the end of the ages.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
14UndatedFor a long while. Finally she says, I don't believe in love. Not sure it really exists, but even if it does for some people, it won't for me. She is serious. Then she lightens up. But, hey, if you think you love me, cool.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
16UndatedIn control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
17UndatedSome peopleAre worthy of a bullet straightto the heart because that is wherecruelty evolves into evil.Somehumans aren't human at all,despite how they appear.Humanity is what lives insidepeople,harbored beneath skin, flesh,and bone.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
18UndatedI knew from the start we were nothing like "forever". Maybe because forever is such a scary place.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
19Undatedcrawling up into daddy's lapwhen dad was stillDADDYnodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heartLISTENINGto the thump...thumpsomewhere beneath muscleand breastbone I remember his armstheir sublimeENCIRCLINGand the shawdow of his voice"I love you, little girl.Put away your bad dreams.Daddy's here"I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that cameHOMEfrom work everyday and insteadof picking me up, chased me farfarawayEllen Hopkins / quote ↗
20UndatedBut Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liablefor my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractionsEllen Hopkins / quote ↗
21UndatedI've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture,no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
22UndatedIt's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
23UndatedBut, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.Ellen Hopkins / quote ↗
24UndatedI think it’s easyto confuse love with other things.Lust, for one. Need, for anotherEllen Hopkins / quote ↗
