“Empty is the perfect state of being. Nothing inside to anchor you. Nothing inside to chain you down, keep you from living your dreams. Empty, almost weightless, you are an eyelash afloat on a blink of breeze. You can rise about tension and worry, loosed from the grip of gravity. Adrift in thermal lift, you ride the wing of freedom and soar. Empty, you are Eve in Eden. Empty, you are what you were meant to be.”

American novelist

Ellen Hopkins is an American novelist known for several New York Times bestselling books that have found a wide audience among teenagers and young adults. Her novels are especially associated with young adult fiction, and her work has reached readers drawn to stories written for that age group. She is best known for the success of those bestselling titles and for writing for a teenage and young adult readership.