Ellen Hopkins Quotes

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

I've always been a glass-half-empty sort of person.

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

There's a lot to be said for misanthropy.

Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books.

It's always been the same from a long time ago, it's people with promises and people dangling carrots and when you're young and impressionable, and ambitious, you want to believe them. I was always lucky because there was always part of me that didn't believe these people.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here.