Ellen Hopkins, Crank

"I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?"

"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."

"We kissed for aboutthe thousandth time,No promises,no demands,Just solid rebuildingof shattered trust."

"Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him."

"Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn't dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open?"

"Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn’t dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open"

"Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for"

"Fireworks. Snowflakes. Sunstroke and frostbite. It was all that I could ask for and completely unexpected. I expected demands. He gifted me with tenderness. I expected ego. He let me experiment. I expected disrespect. He called me beautiful. I expected him to expect perfection. He taught me all I needed to know."

"Aloneeverything changes. Some might call it distorted realitybut it's exactly the place I need to be."

"We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly."

"Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feelcheap for doingexactly what they beg for. The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true. The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricotwhen the peach blushes and bruises. These things make me believe God's a man after all."

"You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me."