“Baby, you read me like one of your books; except I’m not the hero. I’ll never be the hero.”
― E.L. James, quote from Darker
“I’ve been so busy I haven’t managed to contact her since this morning, but she’s been hovering at the edge of my consciousness all day, like a guardian angel. My guardian angel. Ever present but not intrusive.”
― E.L. James, quote from Darker
“Damn right. She’s my girl. Handkerchiefs are my business, not his.”
― E.L. James, quote from Darker
“We move in the light. We slow in the shadows. We stop in the dark.”
― E.L. James, quote from Darker
“I slip it into my inside pocket, pleased that it will rest close to my heart.”
― E.L. James, quote from Darker
“I’m her lost boy, now found.”
― E.L. James, quote from Darker
“Christian, I’ve long held the belief that you never really had an adolescence—emotionally speaking.”
― E.L. James, quote from Darker
“You’ve seen the photos. You’ve spoken to the boy.” “His name is José,” she asserts, louder this time.”
― E.L. James, quote from Darker
“what does a young woman from Montesano do to keep herself amused?” I take a sip of my beer. “Read.” “It always comes back to books with you, doesn’t it?” “Yes.”
― E.L. James, quote from Darker
“Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“A woman counsels caution, while a man's heart burns to see justice done.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Hero's Tale
“the Vatican is an organization that excommunicates women for attempting to become priests13 but does not excommunicate male priests for raping children.14 It excommunicates doctors who perform abortions to save a mother’s life—even if the mother is a nine-year-old girl raped by her stepfather and pregnant with twins15—but it did not excommunicate a single member of the Third Reich for committing genocide.”
― Sam Harris, quote from The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
“Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Probable Future
“... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg
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