Smoke Quotes

“What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?”
― Ellen Hopkins, 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, 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, Smoke

“Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.”
― Ellen Hopkins, 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, 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, Smoke

“Home. What does it mean to me? Will I ever know home again?”
― Ellen Hopkins, 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, Smoke

“Can 'love and obey' possibly go together?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Smoke

“I have no right to love you, but I do.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Smoke

“But if there is a hereafter, one my father has been welcomed into, it must be a godless wasteland.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Smoke

“adjudicator.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Smoke

“As fragile as it is, love can also be stubborn.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Smoke

“She calls me honey, but offers no
real sympathy. Is that part of being
a woman, too?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Smoke

“I'm mired in a quicksand of dreams,
I am comforted to know all that separates us is a thin veil of consciousness.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Smoke

“People aren't meant to carry sorrow alone. And joy? Well, that is something best shared.”
― Ellen Hopkins, 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, Smoke