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“you come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers.Instead they talk about themselves, what they've been up to, what they're going to do next,       as if you're a photo on the wall.And then they talk to one another, forgetting you've jsut flown in, forgetting you're in the backseat, forgetting they've already said it all.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“I do have friends, but they don't know me, only someone I've created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice. I keep the melted me bottled up inside. Where no one can touch her, until, unbidden, she comes pouring out.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

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

“They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

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

“I still care for you, you know..

That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“I don't love him, & he definitely doesn't love me. Still, he semi-fills a gaping black hole inside me. That place wants love, maybe even needs love, but love is something I"m pretty sure doesn't exist.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR
Is it requires a reaction. Some hide.
Some cry. But, like a dog condemned
to a walled yard with no hope
of escape or affection, some learn
to bite.”
― Ellen Hopkins

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

“Clear.
Cold.
Empty.

Like how I feel
right now. Love
is strange. One
minute you’re
jungle fever.
The next
you’re
Artic
winter.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Fallout

“School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Tricks

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

“Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Tricks