{"author":"Ellen Hopkins","author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins","total_quotes":111,"quotes":[{"text":"...What good would it do toshutter your windows, neverdream of rainbows or find hopein promises? Why choose to walk awayrather than hold your groundand fight for love?","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["ellen-hopkins","verse","young-adult"],"id":605,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["poetry","fun","doing "],"id":5886,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["insanity","suicide"],"id":7651,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses.At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home.And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["aloneness","grief","rebirth","resurrection","zombies"],"id":8736,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["addiction","kill"],"id":28252,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... Maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["fear","self-worth"],"id":31965,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["corpse","god","love"],"id":64576,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["lies"],"id":79057,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["beginnings","endings","experience"],"id":83463,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"Anger is easier than forgiveness.","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["ellen-hopkins","impulse","life","perfect","poetry","young-adult"],"id":92234,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":111,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}