Triangles Quotes

“Dream Bigger
You think. Stop letting
small minded people
dictate your future
when all
they really want is for
you to accomplish
the work of two, for minimum
wage. Reach higher, or
else
plan for retirement
in a cardboard box, praying
global warming is more
than a catchphrase.
And if that
fails
to be the case,
hope freezing to death
is really as simple
as falling asleep,
to the lullaby of teeth chatter.
Dream bigger
before you can't remember
how to dream at all.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Spilling a Secret

What its size,
will have varying
consequences. It’s not
possible to predict
what will happen
if you
open the gunnysack,
let the cat escape.
A liberated feline
might purr on your lap,
or it might scratch
your eyes out. You can’t
tell
until you loosen the knot.
Do you chance losing
a friendship, if that
friend’s well-being
will
only be preserved
by betraying sworn-to
silence trust? Once
the seam is ripped, can
it be
mended again?
And if that proves
impossible, will you be
okay
when it all falls to pieces?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“When all else fails, dream bigger.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Regrets are like molecules. We're all made up of a lot of them. They are elemental. Building blocks. The foundations of memory. You can dawdle in the past, allow it to shadow you, or you can walk forward into the light of tomorrow.But you can't altogether disregard what has already been- byways chosen, detours taken. The misbegotten decisions you can never reverse, but only by sorting through them can you find where you took the wrong turns and gain proper perspective. Time is a parabolic lens, bringing hindsight into focus.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Fact, in overt disguise, is often
all
people need to embrace
lies invented as distraction.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Shane was born perfectly fine, despite the same genetic pairing.
One in four.
That's what their odds were.
God gave Shelby SMA.
Shane just got "gay".”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Frustration, too evident in the cement clench of his jaw.
Distance, the ethereal detached from the flesh and bone.
Impatience, in the soft thrum of his heel as we sit in silence.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“...Taking chances. Risking a little to gain a lot, fully aware that the word 'promise' defies definition. Outcomes cannot be predicted. There are too many variables. Sometimes you have to close your eyes to forecast the weather.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Dream bigger before you can't remember to dream at all.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Love' is safe. 'In love' is reckless. Alive.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“In more ways than one, eyes are mirrors. What does it say about you if you can’t bring yourself to look into them?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“How far we claim to have come - accepting all men as created equal. Gender being the requisite qualifier, as women are not reviewed in the same fashion - their fashion hopefully better suited to the bedroom than the boardroom. And, you know, homosexuals not really being 'men,' cannot be judged equivalent to their stiffer-wristed brethren. On religion, well, some Christians are willing to make room for a Jew or two in their inner circles. But Mecca-facing prayer must be met with flaming crosses. Close your eyes to the details, the big picture can still be viewed through rose-colored glass. But go any distance beyond the rhetoric, truth becomes a shadowed lens.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Satisfaction is transient - an interim state of mind.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“No machine. No drug. No treatment. At age four, Shelby's heart is all used up. As summer dies, so does my beautiful angel.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Love' is safe. 'In love's is reckless. Alive.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Tired of being a bystander to life, not even an observer because I've locked myself away in self-imposed asylum.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Imagination is a meadow of wildflower dreams, pastureland sown with possible.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Well, Dad, if you really believe in God, you'll quit worrying about me. Because if there is a God, he wants me this way. This is the way I was born. This is the way he made me. You, on the other hand, weren't born with a whiskey bottle.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Jealousy is a rockslide - one pebble of suspicion initiates an avalanche, leaves sanity buried beneath the slag.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Lost in sleep, his face wears no worry, and I glimpse a ghost of the man who used to write me love letters. Time has stolen more than sonnets.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“I watch her go, all skinny jeans and seventeen, thinking she's grown up. Believing she's in love, hoping he loves her back, and willing to do whatever it takes to make that so.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“In more ways than one, eyes are mirrors. What does it say about you if you can't bring yourself to look into them?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Dream bigger before you can’t remember how to dream at all.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“The misbegotten decisions you can never reverse, but only by sorting through them can you find where you took the wrong turns and gain proper perspective.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“You can dawdle in the past, allow it to shadow you, or you can walk forward into the light of tomorrow.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles