"I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air."

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Source : Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

Ellen Hopkins

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“To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .”
“O hasten, Lord, these promised days, When Israel shall rejoice, And Jew and Gentile join in praise, With one united voice!”
“Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.”
“In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.”
“Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.”
“We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
“It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.”
“Husbands and wives, if you guys donâ€™t have a beautiful marriage, a loving marriage, a romantic marriage you are ruining your eeman! You have to have a marriage so awesome that you donâ€™t have to look at the character of a movie or a play and say â€˜i wish i had a marriage like thisâ€™, your marriage should be better than that because otherwise, Sheytan will come to each one of you and say â€˜man i wonder, is there anything better out there, why am I stuck in this?â€™ Both husband and wife have to work hard to make their relationship work not for yourselves but for your eeman!”

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