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.
Ellen HopkinsI know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
Ellen HopkinsYou canโt walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I donโt want it now or ever again. Donโt want to hear the word or wear its scars.
Ellen Hopkinsyou come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers.Instead they talk about themselves, what they've been up to, what they're going to do next, as if you're a photo on the wall.And then they talk to one another, forgetting you've jsut flown in, forgetting you're in the backseat, forgetting they've already said it all.
Ellen Hopkins