Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.

There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.

There's action only if there is danger.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

Dad never demonstrated any fear, although my sisters and I lived in terror he’d be killed by an assassin.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

The real world is where the monsters are.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

Disney World?” Ari felt like his head was about to explode. “Disney World?” His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. “They’re not on vacation! They’re on the run! They’re running for their lives! Death is following them like a bullet, and they’re on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad?

Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open. "Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.

Do not run away, it is cowardice.

It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

Life has to be dangerous.

I wish I was more adventurous.