Flirtin' with the Monster Quotes

“Love is an elixir,
so poets claim, a frothy hormonal
brew to cure what's ailing you. Drink
it in. Sip it slowly. Savor
its peculiar flavour as loneliness
and pain all melt away.
Dive headlong into the rush,
ride the raging river up against
the brink, careful not to drown. Drop
over the edge. Negotiate your fall,
for drug or love or object thrown,
one thing is certain. What goes up
eventually come down.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
Are you ready to shatter the silence?
Share your secrets.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, it's true strength.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“Secrets are destructive.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“We enter the world
with innocent needs.
Sustenance.
Shelter.
Nuturing.
Connection.

We grow, learning through
reward, to want.
Toys.
Cars.
Money.
Connection.

When reward becomes the goal,
want becomes desire.
Drugs.
Booze.
Sex.
Connection.

When desire becomes need,
desperation follows.
Disconnection.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“The easiest definition is this: an addiction is something we can't stop doing. Among its symptoms are lethargy, a lack of ability to focus, a tremendous desire to maintain routine in our daily life, the inability to complete cycles of action, a lack of new experiences and emotional responses, and the persistent feeling that one day is the same as the next and the next.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“Truth" is coloured by perception.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“When you eat your favorite food, 150 dopamine units are released. When you have sex, 200 dopamine units are released. But when you use methamphetamine, 1050 dopamine units are released—five times more dopamine than is released during sex. Even cocaine use only releases 340 units.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“Secrets.
We keep them to protect ourselves.
We keep them to protect others.
We keep them out of shame.
We keep them out of fear.
We keep them... wait... do we keep them for do they keep us?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“Be true to who you are -- no matter who are you.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

“Kristina, the stoners accept everyone. How does that make you special?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass