"I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me."

-- Ellen Hopkins

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Important Quotes

“You can crush a man with journalism.”
“How do you know when an apology is trueâ€”when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?”

Source : Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen
“Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.”
“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
“Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.”
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.”
“The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.”

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