“Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling.
Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“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, quote from Identical
“I want the part of you that you refuse to give.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“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, quote from Identical
“I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“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, quote from Identical
“Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“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, quote from Identical
“The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“Despite whoever created it, it's my world, & the only one I've got. Might as well make the best of it, right? Might as well have a little fun while I'm here. Or a lot of fun. Might be dead tomorrow.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“Was I saved, or was fate simply too damn busy killing other people that day to catch up to me, too?”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“crawling up into daddy's lap
when dad was still
DADDY
nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heart
LISTENING
to the thump...thump
somewhere beneath muscle
and breastbone I remember his arms
their sublime
ENCIRCLING
and the shawdow of his voice
"I love you, little girl.
Put away your bad dreams.
Daddy's here"
I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that came
HOME
from work everyday and instead
of picking me up, chased me far
far
away”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“HAPPY EVER AFTER
is a concept I'll never believe
in. I would be content to sample
some little taste of happiness
today, tonight, right now. Though I know
without a doubt that tomorrow
will come saturated with pain.
Life is like that. At least
my life. And honestly, I cant
think of anyone whose life
is any different. The price
tag for joy is misery. [...]”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“I don't think we'll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“I want to know living love. And I don't want to wait for it.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“Afraid to Die Loveless
Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity.
Alone.
Frozen.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“Raeanne
Mirror, Mirror
When I look into a
mirror,
it is her face I see.
Her right is my left, double
moles, dimple and all.
My right is her left,
unblemished.
We are exact
opposites,
Kaeleigh and me.
Mirror image identical
twins. One egg, one sperm
one zygote, divided,
sharing one complete
set of genetic markers.
On the outside we are
the same. But not
inside. I think
she is the egg, so
much like our mother
it makes me want to scream.
Cold.
Controlled.
That makes me the sperm
I guess. I take completely
after our father.
All Daddy, that's me.
Codependent.
Cowardly.
Good, bad. Left, right.
Kaeleigh and Raeanne.
One egg, one sperm.
One being, split in two.
And how many
souls?”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“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, quote from Identical
“A whole big, giant world full of men. Men with blue eyes. Brown eyes. Green eyes. And indescribable shades in between. Tall men. Short men. Skinny men. Built men. And all combinations thereof. Nice men (so I've heard, but never really seen). Mean men. Decent men, indecent. And who knows which is the best kind to have, to hold, to love? I'd say, with so many men in the world, it would pay to sample a few. Scratch that. More than a few. Lots and lots. And then a few more. And maybe, after years of research, you might find one worth not throwing back. But hey, the fun is in the fishing.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
Ellen Hopkins
Born place: in Long Beach, CA. , The United States
Born date March 26, 1955
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“In a state of war, one is always waiting. We have become waiting-machines. For the moment it is food we are waiting for. Then it will be the post. But each in its turn. When we have done with dinner we will think about the letters. After that, we shall set ourselves to wait for something else.”
― Henri Barbusse, quote from Under Fire
“Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had spent here together. What was I going to do when such days came no more? There could not be many; for we were a family growing old. And how would I learn to live without these people? I who needed them so little that I could stay away all year - what should I do without them?”
― Jetta Carleton, quote from The Moonflower Vine
“the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.”
― C. Wright Mills, quote from The Sociological Imagination
“Esta es mi familia.
Te vuelve absolutamente loco.
Pero los extrañas cuando ya no están aquí.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“We have no obligation to assist countries whose governments have policies that will undermine the effectiveness of our aid.”
― Peter Singer, quote from Practical Ethics
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