Perfect Ellen Hopkins Quotes & Sayings

He screamed like a thirteen-year-old girl with Bieber Fever, — Jackson Galaxy

Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins) — Ellen Hopkins

She is angle. I am
curve. Together, we are geometric
sculpture, and we make perfect sense. — Ellen Hopkins

A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find ... a perfect paper airplane. — Ellen Hopkins

She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character. — Ellen Hopkins

There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system. — C.S. Lewis

slaying everything within reach in order to quiet the monster that gnaws at their vitals. — Henry Miller

Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love. — Ellen Hopkins

Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning? — Ellen Hopkins

Some people insist that hallowed professional teams should never change their nicknames. — George Vecsey

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought. — Robert Walser

Sex sells, unless you're dehydrated in which case you'd be much more likely to purchase water. — Dov Davidoff

The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away. — William Cowper

Anger is easier than forgiveness. — Ellen Hopkins

I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most. — Ellen Hopkins

Empty is the perfect state of being. Nothing inside to anchor you. Nothing inside to chain you down, keep you from living your dreams. Empty, almost weightless, you are an eyelash afloat on a blink of breeze. You can rise about tension and worry, loosed from the grip of gravity. Adrift in thermal lift, you ride the wing of freedom and soar. Empty, you are Eve in Eden. Empty, you are what you were meant to be. — Ellen Hopkins

Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably. — Ellen Hopkins

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted. — Isaiah Berlin

I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs. — Adam McKay

I think if love is real, and headed toward the altar, the sex part-within reason-can wait. — Ellen Hopkins

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye. — Ellen Hopkins

But this room's walls were completely covered by bookcases, filled, which reached to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds - perhaps thousands - of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters. — Lois Lowry

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

Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you? — Ellen Hopkins

Only you should decide for you what is perfect. — Ellen Hopkins

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him. — Susan Kay

I'm afraid it will never be perfect again. I am indelibly stained. Forever redefined, but blurred around the edges. — Ellen Hopkins

The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart. — Ellen Hopkins

At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into encompassing stillness far away from city dirt and noise Far above suburban gridlock. Far beyond the grasp of home. — Ellen Hopkins