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“Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling.
Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you”
― Ellen Hopkins

“I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“I want the part of you that you refuse to give.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Fallout

“Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Burned

“Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Fallout

“I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“She is madness,
sanity. She is hell, and
paradise.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Perfect

“Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

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

“Love is only found in books”
― Ellen Hopkins, Burned

“I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Glass

“Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Fallout

“Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Was I saved, or was fate simply too damn busy killing other people that day to catch up to me, too?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Tricks

“I don't think we'll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.”
― Ellen Hopkins