Ellen Hopkins Quotes

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

I've been hurt quite a few times.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

You must hurt, or be hurt.

I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I trusted everyone. I’m not that person any more. He’s just a boy. He was the first to really hurt me, but he’s just a boy. There were a lot of them.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

I am scared of my father to this day. My father walked in the room - and God knows I am telling the truth - I have fainted in his presence many times. I have fainted once to be honest. I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble.

I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil