“What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“Some people
Are worthy of a bullet straight
to the heart because that is where
cruelty evolves into evil.
Some
humans aren't human at all,
despite how they appear.
Humanity is what lives inside
people,
harbored beneath skin, flesh,
and bone.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“My grandmother used to say God gives us drought years-years drained of happiness-to prepare us for bounteous times. I'm more than ready for bounty.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“Right Here.
Beside a living, breathing human
being who cares for me. I can see
it in the cool lagoons of his eyes,
hear it in the timbre of his voice
when he speaks my name.
Right here.
Where the warmth of his skin
tempers the February cold and
the thinnest beam of his inner
light overcomes winter's pall.
He is a candle in the wilderness.
Right here.
Where the omnipresent specter
of death takes flight, awed
by the power of the two of us,
hearts beating in unison, as we
stumble through the darkness
toward one another.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“Home. What does it mean to me? Will I ever know home again?”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“Love is a pain in disguise, a scorpion lying in wait for just the right moment to strike and inject you with its poison before scuttling off into the shadows.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“But if there is a hereafter, one my father has been welcomed into, it must be a godless wasteland.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“I have no right to love you, but I do.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“Can 'love and obey' possibly go together?”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“It's one thing to crave a shot of adventure, a taste of something new, and quite another to become immersed in the extraordinary, where you're not quite certain if you're safe or stuck in limbo.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
“Some people blunt such pain with dope or booze or a dive into madness, but I don't have such luxuries available to me.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Smoke
Ellen Hopkins
Born place: in Long Beach, CA. , The United States
Born date March 26, 1955
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“Live for me, Kitten. Be all those things you'd never be with me. Go to school. Meet a normal boy and fall in love. Forgive me. It's time for you to go, Kitten. Time for us both, to go.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“She came quickly over to me and held out her hand. I looked at her full of distrust. Was she doing this freely, with a light heart? Or was she doing it just to get rid of me? She put her arm around my neck, tears in her eyes. I just stood and looked at her. She offered me her mouth but I couldn't believe her, it was bound to be a sacrifice on her part, a means of getting it over with.
She said something, it sounded to me like "I love you anyway!" She said it very softly and indistinctly, I may not have heard it correctly, perhaps she didn't say exactly those words. But she threw herself passionately on my neck, held both arms around my neck a little while, even raised herself on tiptoe to reach well up, and stood thus.
Afraid that she was forcing herself to show me this tenderness, I merely said "How beautiful you are now!"
That was all I said. I stepped back, bumped against the door and walked out backward. She was left standing inside.”
― Knut Hamsun, quote from Hunger
“Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from Lord of Chaos
“Surely you can entrust your task to your friends."
"No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice."
"If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up through your own choice.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from The Book of Three
“What's the difference between a Spartan king and a mid-ranker? One man will lob this query to his mate as they prepare to bed down in the open in a cold driving rain. His friend considers mock-theatrically for a moment. .'The king sleeps in that shithole over there' he replies. 'We sleep in this shithole over here.”
― Steven Pressfield, quote from Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
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