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“The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Life was good
before I
met
the monster.
After,
life
was great
At least
for a little while”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“I wanted to meet the monster.

Why go down if you can go up?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Girls get screwed.
What I mean is,
they're always
on the short
end of things.

The way things work, how
guys feel great, but
make girls feel
cheap for doing
exactly what
they beg
for.

The way they get to play
you, all the while
claiming they
love you and
making you
believe it's true.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Alone
everything changes.
Some might call it distorted reality
but it's exactly the place I need to be.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Fire!
Your nose ignites,
flameless kerosene
(and, some say, Drano)
laced with ephedrine
you want to cry
powdered demons bite
through cartilage and sinuses,
take dead aim at your
brain, jump inside
want to scream
troops of tapping feet
fall into rhythm,
marking time, right
between your eyes
get the urge to dance
louder, louder, ultra
gray-matter power,
shock waves of energy
mushroom inside your head
you want to let go
detonate,
annihilate barriers,
bring down the walls,
unleashing floodwaters,
freeing long-captive dreams
to ride the current
through
arteries and capillaries,
pulsing, rushing,
raging torrents
pounding against your heart
sweeping you away”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“You want to shout, can't you see I'm here? Can't you see I'm brand new? Can't you see me at all?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess:

Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity.

Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs. With my immense treasure of experience and wisdom, it seems a pity not to let everybody partake of it. But thou knowest, Lord, that in the end I will need a few friends.

Keep me from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point.

Grant me the patience to listen to the complaints of others; help me to endure them with charity. But seal my lips on my own aches and pains -- they increase with the increasing years and my inclination to recount them is also increasing.

I will not ask thee for improved memory, only for a little more humility and less self-assurance when my own memory doesn't agree with that of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be wrong.

Keep me reasonably gentle. I do not have the ambition to become a saint -- it is so hard to live with some of them -- but a harsh old person is one of the devil's masterpieces.

Make me sympathetic without being sentimental, helpful but not bossy. Let me discover merits where I had not expected them, and talents in people whom I had not thought to possess any. And, Lord, give me the grace to tell them so.

Amen”
― Anonymous

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
― John Bunyan

“She decided that if Lucas was gay then she was going to have to get a sex change operation. He would be so worth it.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.”
― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

“I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.”
― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

“People don't understand us. They don't understand me. They think it's so black and white, that he makes me miserable and that I should be with someone else and that I deserve something else.
But it's not black and white at all. It's gray. It's a never ending world of gray.”
― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

“It will never be true. Things have never been okay with us. Maybe if I'd paid attention, I would have seen that on our first few dates. Maybe I would have noticed his possessiveness; maybe I would have seen the way he wrapped around me, made me his entire world, his obsession. Maybe I would have felt the wight he placed on my shoulders, one tiny stone at a time.”
― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

“I'm going back to bed. And when I wake up maybe that ugly girl will be gone.”
― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him