Ellen Hopkins > Quotes

“He did seem like a nice boy.'
Seeming and being are two different things. You seem nice, too, Mommy dearest.”
― Ellen Hopkins Crank

“I mean if you're going to kill yourself, there are faster ways than letting [meth] chew up your brain one lobe at a time"

"Do enough crank, your heart will give up before your brain does. Most people don't do enough to die, though. They just do enough to keep getting more and more stupid."

"Like stupid enough to smuggle meth into a place like this?”
― Ellen Hopkins (Author)

“The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for.
The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricot when the peach blushes and bruises.”
― Ellen Hopkins Crank, Crank (Spanish Edition) by Ellen Hopkins

“His hurt swallowed mine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine.”
― Ellen Hopkins Crank, Crank

“My mixed-up, messed-up family, a convoluted collection of mostly regular people, somehow strengthened by indissoluble love, despite an ever-present undercurrent of pain.”
― Ellen Hopkins Crank

“He wanted me. He needed me. He needed more to go to her, let her know he loved her still.”
― Ellen Hopkins Crank

“You've probably heard that story before. But until you're in those shoes, wearing them seems so straightforward. Keep your baby? Give it away? Abort your baby? Give it life? If you think you have a clear idea, try throwing drugs into that picture. Not quite so cocky now, are you?”
― Ellen Hopkins Crank, Crank

“You can hide a lot, or maybe just get away with a lot, if you play your cards right. I only hope the hand I'm about to deal myself will hold an ace or two.”
― Ellen Hopkins Crank, Glass

“Shut the hell up, I silently shout to the bitch who lives in my brain.”
― Ellen Hopkins Crank, Glass