“He makes you the person you want to be,
instead of the person you are, and that, the idea of life without him is,
not only unbearable, it's unimaginable.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“Anastasia, you should steer clear of me. I’m not the man for you,” he whispers.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“I love you, Anastasia. I will do everything in my power to protect you. I cannot imagine my life without you.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“But the only way you are going to sort the problem, whatever it is, is to talk it through with him. You can do all the thinking you like—but until you actually talk, you’re not going to get anywhere.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“Follow your heart, darling, and please, please—try not to overthink things. Relax and enjoy yourself.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“Don’t,” he murmurs, then kisses me lightly. “Why don’t you like to be touched?” I whisper, staring up into soft gray eyes. “Because I’m fifty shades of fucked up, Anastasia.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“And you decided that it was nice knowing me? Do you mean knowing me in the biblical sense?” Oh, shit. I flush. “I didn’t think you were familiar with the Bible.” “I went to Sunday school, Anastasia. It taught me a great deal.” “I don’t remember reading about nipple clamps in the Bible. Perhaps you were taught from a modern translation.” His lips arch with a trace of a smile, and my eyes are drawn to his mouth. “Well, I thought I should come and remind you how nice it was knowing me.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“The world of Katherine Kavanagh is very clear, very black and white. Not the intangible, mysterious, vague hues of gray that color my world. Welcome to my world.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“After you've taken so much trouble to set up recorder, you ask me now?”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“We cross the expansive, bustling lobby of the hotel toward the entrance, but Grey avoids the revolving door, and I wonder if that’s because he’d have to let go of my hand.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“Which medieval chronicle did you escape from? You sound like a courtly knight.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“And the rules?” “No rules.” “None at all? But you have needs.” “I need you more, Anastasia. These last few days have been hell.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“You make me feel cherished.” “That’s because you are,” he murmurs,”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“We’ve chased the dawn, Anastasia, now the dusk,”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“In the back of my mind, my mother’s often-recited warning comes to me: Never trust a man who can dance.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“Anastasia, you were comatose. Necrophilia is not my thing. I like my women sentient and receptive,” he says dryly.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“And the music … so much music—I cannot bear to hear any music. I am careful to avoid it at all costs. Even the jingles in commercials make me shudder.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“If you grow up with a wholly negative self-image, thinking you’re some kind of reject, an unlovable savage, you think you deserve to be beaten.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“All the times he’s alluded to my leaving once I knew his darkest secrets flash through my mind … and now I know. Shit. Master is dark.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“Is there a store you go to? Submissives ’Я’ Us?” He laughs. “Not exactly.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“I want my own Christian Grey :)”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.’ ”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“Ana.” Elliot’s voice is clipped and quiet, and my scalp prickles ominously. “What’s wrong?” “It’s Christian. He’s not back from Portland.” “What? What do you mean?” “His helicopter has gone missing.” “Charlie Tango?” I whisper as all the breath leaves my body. “No!”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“I had no idea you’d all be so worried.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only—only—don’t make it more than I can bear!”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
“Weirdly, all the wood, dark walls, moody lighting, and oxblood leather makes the room kind of soft and romantic … I know it’s anything but; this is Christian’s version of soft and romantic.”
― E.L. James, quote from Fifty Shades Trilogy
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“A victorious army wins its victories before seeking battle.”
― James Patterson, quote from Kiss the Girls
“There is something memorable in the experience to be had by going to a fair ground that stands at the edge of a Middle Western town on a night after the annual fair has been held. The sensation is one never to be forgotten. On all sides are ghosts, not of the dead, but of living people. Here, during the day just passed, have come the people pouring in from the town and the country around. Farmers with their wives and children and all the people from the hundreds of little frame houses have gathered within these board walls. Young girls have laughed and men with beards have talked of the affairs of their lives. The place has been filled to overflowing with life. It has itched and squirmed with life and now it is night and the life has all gone away. The silence is almost terrifying. One conceals oneself standing silently beside the trunk of a tree and what there is of a reflective tendency in his nature is intensified. One shudders at the thought of the meaningless of life while at the same instant, and if the people of the town are his people, one loves life so intensely that tears come into the eyes.”
― Sherwood Anderson, quote from Winesburg, Ohio
“On the first of July, while Ariel sat on their blanket, gazing out at the sun-spangled water, Chyna tried to read a newspaper, but every story distressed her. War, rape, murder, robbery, politicians spewing hatred from all ends of the political spectrum. She read a movie review full of vicious ipse dixit criticism of the director and screenwriter, questioning their very right to create, and then turned to a woman columnist’s equally vitriolic attack on a novelist, none of it genuine criticism, merely venom, and she threw the paper in a trash can.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Intensity
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
― Karl Marx, quote from The Communist Manifesto
“Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.”
― Primo Levi, quote from Survival in Auschwitz
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