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“HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so WHY push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is WHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway, WHEN did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person WHO lives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you - WHAT is perfect.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Two #Creating #People
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“Addiction is rarely conquered alone.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Addiction
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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
#Mean #Forever #Might
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“Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Children #Believe #Years
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“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
#Life #Change #Hope
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“Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Easy #Should #Given
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“Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Thankful #Mean #Littles
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“You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Goodbye #Love You #Self
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“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
#Hate #Lying #Past
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“Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the "blame" is on the individual.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Example #Information #Blame
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“Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Memories #Wine #Bottles
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“I carry a strong anti-drug message, and it's important young people especially hear a "real" story about addiction and how it affects not only the addict but also the people who love him/her, rather than "just say no."”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Strong #Real #People
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“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
#Anger #Want #Emotion
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“Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Book #Writing #Character
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“The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Skeletons #Wind #Stronger
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“I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use the F word when necessary, but there are words I won't use, mainly because I don't like them. I don't write about body parts when I write about sex. It's not about the physiological, it's more important for teens to read about the emotional aspects. I do think there are times when self-censorship is important.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Sex #Writing #Emotional
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“Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Reflection #Perfect #Soul
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“In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults we want to believe things like sex abuse or drug use are not happening anymore, or happening less and less, but that's not the case and we need to acknowledge that. We can't make life prettier for youth, but we can arm them.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Sex #Believe #Book
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“...what good would it do to shutter your windows, never dream of rainbows or find hope in promises? Why choose to walk away rather than hold your ground and fight for love?”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Dream #Fighting #Rainbow
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“Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Book #People #Inspire
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“This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Sweet #Sex #Heart
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“I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Children #Book #Reading
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“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
#Choke #Ends #Trembling
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“he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Heart #Butterfly #Nectar
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“Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Real #Lying #Book
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“...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Mean #Safe #Want
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“Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness, close out all light. Long to cast away yesterday, cast away memory, cast away all jeapordy. Pray you could somehow stop uncertainty, somehow stop the loathing, somehow stop the pain. Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Pain #Memories #Cutting
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“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Dream #Mean #Chance
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“imperfections create character...”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Character #Imperfection
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“When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.”
-- Ellen Hopkins
#Sunshine #Littles #Shimmer
