Ellen Hopkins Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. March 26, 1955
Birthday: March 26
My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)
source: Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
topic: Memories, Healing, Blood, Scarring
