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“The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.”

Quote by Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins is an American novelist known for her poetry-in-prose novels. Her works often tackle issues affecting teenagers, such as drug abuse, domestic violence, and self-harm. Hopkins' writing style is distinctive, appreciated for its direct and candid narrative. more

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“And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?”

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“It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.”

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“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.”

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Book:Identical

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“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.”

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Author:Ellen Hopkins

“I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.”

Needs Should I Can Running Wish Worthy His Love I Need Him

Book:Identical

Source: Identical

“One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.”

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“I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.”

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Book:Identical

Source: Identical

“Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating.”

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Book:Dragonlance Chronicles

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“And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.”

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Book:Great Expectations

Source: Great Expectations

“He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.”

Knows Giving Lying Half Know How Honest Faithful Hopeful Hopeless Loving You How To Love

Author:Ellen Hopkins