Love Lies Beneath Quotes

“Even as a kid I had to be the adult.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Love Lies Beneath

“Bipolar disorder is vicious. In her manic phases, she was the mother every kid wants—fun, loving, full of life. But when the switch flipped, she barely spoke to any of us, just hid out in her room, watching TV. She didn’t bathe. Didn’t eat. She refused her meds, preferring alcohol. No one, least of all Dad, could convince her otherwise. And then one day, she was gone.” “You mean dead.” “Yes.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Love Lies Beneath

“The way to play a player is by making him believe, without a doubt, he has you played.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Love Lies Beneath

“recently read a fascinating article about the correlation between creativity and depression. There’s a part of the brain that refuses to turn off for artists, so they’re always thinking. That, and they have an overwhelming need to control both their fictional characters, and the ‘characters’ who populate their real lives.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Love Lies Beneath

“Henry Miller was a novelist. Have you read his Tropic of Cancer?” “I’ve heard of it. It was early erotica or something, right?” “It had quite a bit more substance than most erotica, but it was raw, and at the time France first published it in 1934, it was banned in the United States. It published here in 1961, and led to a series of obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography. The case went all the way to the US Supreme Court, which ultimately declared the book a work of literature.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Love Lies Beneath

“Henry Miller was a novelist. Have you read his Tropic of Cancer?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Love Lies Beneath

“Having a clear understanding of the past is vital to a healthy future.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Love Lies Beneath

“pride goes before destruction.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Love Lies Beneath