Chelsea > Chelsea's Quotes

“A flower blooms best in a happy pot.”
― V.C. Andrews, Music in the Night

“Seek the tarnish and you shall find”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe.”
― V.C. Andrews, Misty

“Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.”
― V. C. Andrews

“I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up. You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

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

“Think of how they must have loved when all they had was each other.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“in a woman's womb.
another chance.
to make the world better.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Burned

“Isn't it ironic . . . we ignore those who adore us, adore those who ignore us, hurt those who love us, and love those who hurt us.


Every flaw he held and every perfection he flaunted made her love him even more.

"I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“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

“Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver: A Young Adult Mystery Novel About Shattered Friendship and Angels

“There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver: A Young Adult Mystery Novel About Shattered Friendship and Angels

“If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver: A Young Adult Mystery Novel About Shattered Friendship and Angels

“If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver: A Young Adult Mystery Novel About Shattered Friendship and Angels

“People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed