E.L. James

Quotes

• “Goodbye, Christian," I murmur."Ana, goodbye," he says softly, and he looks utterly, utterly broken,a man in agonizing pa...”
• “He's pressing me to his chest. I melt. Oh, this is where I want to beI rest my head against him, and he kisses my hair r...”
• “No. No!” he says.“I . . .” He looks wildly around the room. For inspiration? For divine intervention? I don’t know.“You ...”
• “Anastasia, you're going to have to learn to be rich, too, if you say yes.' He says softly. 'Wealth isn't something I've ...”
• “Relationships like this are built on honesty and trust. If you don't trust me-trust me to know how I'm affecting you, ho...”
• “Darling, you know what they say. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.” I give her a lopsided, bi...”
• “Why does he have such an unnerving effect on me? His over-whelming good looks maybe? The way his eyes blaze at me? The w...”
• “Do you trust me Ana?"Ana! "Yes,I do."I respond spontaneously, not thinking...because it's true-I do trust him."Well,then...”
• “And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all ...”
• “It's taking all my self-control not to fuck you on the hood of this car, just to show you that you're mine, and if I wan...”
• “The platinum Omega watch he gave me at breakfast on our first morning in London obscures the red line. The inscription s...”
• “So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you...”
• “You've brushed your teeth," He says, staring at me."I used your toothbrush."His lips quirk up in a half smile. "Oh Anast...”
• “I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes,...”
• “Now please don't refer to yourself ass some woman I fuck occasionally because, quite frankly, it makes me mad, and you r...”
• “We always hurt the ones we love, darling. You’ll have to tell her you’re sorry. And mean it and give her time. - Grace T...”
• “I glance down his body. He's still wearing his shorts and his shirt, and I still have my T-shirt on. Jeez-- talk about w...”
• “Well, when you were nearly run over by the cyclist-and i was holding you and you were looking up at me - all 'kiss me , ...”
• “You really have to let me fight my own battles. You can't constantly second-guess me and try to protect me. It's stiflin...”
• “The only man I’ve ever been attracted to, and he comes with a bloody contract, a flogger, and a whole world of issues.”
• “Besides, immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control things.”
• “Lying in my bed, I pray for a dreamless sleep... but if I am to dream, I want to dream of her.”
• “Having the thought of you being with someone else is like a knife twisting in my dark soul”
• “Ana, honey, you've always had a tendency to overanalyse everything. Go with your gut.”
• “I have fallen for someone who's so emotionally shut down, I will only get hurt.”
• “It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.”
• “After you've taken so much trouble to set up recorder, you ask me now?”
• “I need you." Every pore of my being is begging. This is what we do.”
• “Are you still mad at me?""Yes.""I'll go back to sleep, then.""Good.”
• “You are one brave woman," he whispers, "I am in awe of you.”
• “How could he mean so much to me in such a short time?”
• “It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside...”
• “Has that obscenely rich fucker upset you again?”
• “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”
• “I'd like to bite that lip.”