Quotes from Tilt

“...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, quote from Tilt

“The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“I fell into a big pit of black depression. That happens sometimes, when too much shit gets flung at me at once. It's like all the external pressure sucks into me, then tries to escape again. But it can't. So it builds. Throbs. Makes me feel like my skin is anxious to split. I think that feeling is why some people cut - little slices so they don't shred completely. (212)”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared. Confused by the whys. Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away? (358)”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know I guess.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“And if candor
strikes to forcefully,
step back, draw careful
breath, and consider the angle
your words must take
before you open
your mouth, let them leak
out. Because once you tilt the truth,
it becomes a lie.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“Girls are impossible to satisfy." "Not every girl." Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“...and he's wearing some exotic cologne that makes me want to eat him.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“I hear. Nobody thinks so. But I do. Sometimes people whisper. Sometimes they yell. Sometimes they say mean things. I see more than the TV. It's my friend. I don't have any others, like the kids on Barney do. Why are people afraid of me? I don't want to hurt them. I taste only the sweet air, whooshed through tubes to help me breathe. If I'm lucky a bit of flavor comes with the wind or skin or clothes I smell. I wish my mouth would let me tell Mama I love her. Let me tell Daddy I ms him. Let me tell Shane how good I feel when I see him happy with Alex. I like when I swim because when I float, I am free. I like when I sleep because I dance when I dream. I hear, I see, I taste, I smell, I feel, I dream.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“I take four or five heavy steps beyond the front door and Mom comes rushing down the hallway. "Shane! What in the hell-" Now she sees me, in all my dignified glory. I tell her I'm fine. Swear I stuck up for my sister, not an alien but an angel. By the time I get to, "I think I might need stitches," Mom is my mommy. She may have forgotten my birthday. But today she remembers me. (154)”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“I want him to be my Edward -- taking care of me, always. Watching over me, day or night, unsleeping. Keeping me safe, by his side. Caring for me with a passion so pure it can't be corrupted by time or distance or seduction. I know Edward is only fiction. But that doesn't have to mean love like his can only be found in books and movies or rooted in the misty world of dreams.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“When we finally meet how much do I confess? Our bond is tenuous. Frail as a drift of moonlight on open sea. Would the truth crash us apart? Some secrets can't be kept for too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later, they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run. No way to grow closer with deceit wedged between us. Should I tell or should I hide it away? Would you run away?”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“...Life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“Love isn't invincible. Some people take advantage of that.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“I think it's better to be obsessed than to be depressed.... I think pushing to get what you want can't be so awful. I think it's key to success.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“...I know there's no such thing as forever. So what can we be, in the now?”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

“...When I set my mind on something I am a force to be reckoned with. Today I will be gravity - subtle, but powerful and undeniable.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt

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