Top 100 E L James Quotes
#1. I'll miss you, too. More than you know, he breathes.
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#2. I want your world to begin and end with me.
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#4. But now I feel like a receptacle -- an empty vessel to be filled at his whim.
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#5. I need you Anastasia," he whispers.
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#6. Out of her pocket and answers it. I didn't hear it ring. "Mr. Grey," she says. Leila and I turn to look at her. Prescott closes her eyes as if in pain.
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#7. Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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#8. It's draining, it's exhausting, it's hell... it's heaven. It's hedonism gone wild.
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#9. You've brushed your teeth," He says, staring at me.
"I used your toothbrush."
His lips quirk up in a half smile. "Oh Anastasia Steele, what am I going to do with you?
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#10. You are one fucked up son of a bitch! - Anastasia Steele
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#11. Angry is good.
Angry is better than being tearful
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#12. Relationships like this are built on honesty and trust. If you don't trust me-trust me to know how I'm affecting you, how far I can go with you, how far I can take you-if you can't be honest with me, then we really can't do this.
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#14. So you're my boss now," I snap.
"Technically, I'm you're boss's boss's boss."
"And technically, it's gross moral turpitude- the fact that i am fucking my boss's boss's boss."
"At the moment, you're arguing with him." Christian scowls.
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#16. You're used of taking care to people."
The edge in his voice attracts my attention, and I glance up at him.
"What is it?" I ask, startled by his wary expression.
"I want to take care of you." His luminous eyes glow with some unnamed emotion.
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#17. Running a successful company is all about embracing the talent of the individuals you have at your disposal. if that's where your talents and your interests lie, then you structure the company to enable that ... Christian Grey
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#18. From: Christian Grey
Subject: My Life's Mission ...
Date: September 5, 2011 09:25
To: Anastasia Grey
Is to spoil you, Mrs. Grey.
And keep you safe because I love you.
Christian Grey
Smitten CEO, Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc.
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#20. Um. I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto. Stop talking. Stop talking NOW.
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#21. Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
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#22. I am crying over the loss of something I never had.
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#23. I am doing this so that you remember not to run from me, and as exciting as it is, I never want you to run from me!
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#24. What happened to her?"
"We finished."
"Why?"
"She wanted more."
"And you didn't?"
He shakes his head.
"I've never wanted more, until I met you.
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#25. I think women love a passionate love story.
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#26. Oh ... Blip. Yeah, I see." He sounds distracted, awed.
"Your child," I whisper.
"Our child." He counters.
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#27. This is mine," he whispers aggressively. "All mine. Do you understand?
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#28. I am going to New York whether you like it or not," I hiss. "Don't count - " I hang up, cutting him off mid-sentence.
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#29. I've never felt the way I felt when you left, Anastasia. I would move heaven and earth to avoid feeling like that again.
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#30. Follow your heart, darling, and please, please - try not to overthink things. Relax and enjoy yourself. You are so young, sweetheart. You have so much of life to experience yet, just let it happen. You deserve the best of everything.
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#31. Hi," he says. I manage to grunt in response, and his smile broadens. "Rude enough for you?"
I nod and give him a reluctant grin. Jeez, any ruder and I'd have to spank the pair of us.
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#32. His words make sense. He's not the man for me. This is what he meant, and it makes his rejection to accept ... almost. I can live with this. I understand.
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#33. I tracked your cellphone, Anastasia.
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#34. You're not celibate, then?" I breathe.
Amusement lights up his eyes.
"No, Anastasia, I'm not celibate.
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#35. 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 ever aspired to, Christian.' I frown. 'I know. I love that about you. But then you've never been hungry.' He says simply.
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#36. I raise my eyebrows. "You're going to settle for plain old vanilla?" He cocks his head to one side. "Nothing plain or old about vanilla-it's a very intriguing flavor," he breathes.
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#37. We have to learn to walk before we can run
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#39. Oh, crapola. Don't get your panties in such a twist ... and give me back mine. I glare at him.
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#40. Okay, bag out tea. Sugar? For a moment, I'm stunned, thinking it's an endearment, but fortunately my subconscious kicks in with pursed lips. No, stupid - do you take sugar?
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#41. I'm anything but fine. I feel like the sun has set and not risen for five days, Ana. I'm in perpetual night here.
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#42. My world was ordered, calm, and controlled, then you came into my life with your smart mouth, your innocence, your beauty, and your quiet temerity ... and everything before you was just dull, empty, mediocre ... it was nothing.
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#43. ... Have you considered a more conventional relationship with this girl?"
"No, I haven't."
"Why not?"
"Because it's never occurred to me that I could.
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#44. I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.
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#45. You don't play fair.' I pout.
'I know.
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#46. Don't place some vague moral judgment on yourself based on what others might think.
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#47. Whoa. I've never heard him sing, not even in the shower, ever. I frown. He has a lovely voice - of course. Hmm ... has he heard me sing?
He wouldn't be asking you to marry him if he had! My subconscious has her arms crossed and is wearing Burberry check ... jeez.
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#48. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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#50. If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.
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#51. Perhaps this agony will wash away in the shower.
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#52. An image of her shackled to my bench, peeled gingerroot inserted in her ass so she can't clench her buttocks, comes to mind, followed by judicious use of a belt or strap.
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#53. Gotcha!" he says, and smirks. He grabs me around my waist and pulls me up against him. "You are incorrigible, Miss Steele," he murmurs, staring down into my eyes as he weaves his fingers into my hair, holding me firmly in place. He kisses me, hard, and I cling on to his muscular arms for support.
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#54. Love you, Ana Steele, and I want you by my side, always,
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#55. Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was - my dashed hopes, my dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.
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#56. Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
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#57. I need you. Every pore of my being is begging. This is what we do.
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#58. My blood singing in my veins, answering his call.
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#59. I love you," I murmur, and he smiles his heart-achingly shy smile, and I melt. "I will always love you, Christian."
"And I you," he says softly.
"In spite of my disobedience?" I raise my eyebrow.
"Because of your disobedience, Anastasia." He grins.
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#60. Forget it, Ana, I scold myself. I decide that, all in all, it's been a very interesting experience, but I shouldn't dwell on it. Put it behind you. I never have to see him again.
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#61. I want you to willingly surrender yourself to me, in all things.
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#62. How could he mean so much to me in such a short time?
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#63. Peeled gingerroot inserted in her ass so she can't clench her buttocks,
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#64. It's because I'm pregnant, Christian."
He snorts, and his mouth twists into an ironic smile. "If I knew getting you knocked up was going to make you eat, I might have done it earlier.
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#65. Don't leave me," he whispers.
"Oh for crying out loud-no! I am not going to go!" I shout, and it's cathartic. There, I've said it. I am not leaving.
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#66. I really want to make love to you. Please come to bed with me.
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#67. Christ, even my staff have noticed that something's rotten in the state of fucking Denmark.
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#68. Oh my, the look he gives me could be solely responsible for global warming.
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#69. I thought you didn't make love. I thought you fucked hard.
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#70. Miss Steele, I do believe you're making my palm twitch.
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#71. Ray's voice echoes in my head from one of his many self-defense lectures.
It's the panic that's gonna kill you or get you seriously hurt, Annie.
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#72. Besides ... anticipation is the key to seduction, and right now, I'm really into delayed gratification.
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#73. My subconscious is furious, medusa-like in her anger, hair flying, her hands clenched around her face like Edvard Munch's Scream.
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#74. But we were at your parents' dining table." I stare up at him, completely bewildered.
"No one's ever said no to me before. And it's so - hot.
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#75. Crusty and Cross here,' he says and I grin. He's still playful Fifty. My inner goddess is clapping her hands with glee like a small child.
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#76. I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto.
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#77. You can't fathom why some people behave the way they do
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#78. My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art.
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#79. Because my wife worked for him, and I run security checks on anyone my wife works with - Christian Grey
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#80. 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 wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
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#81. That was really nice," I whisper, smiling coyly. "There's that word again." "You don't like that word?" "No. It doesn't do it for me at all." "Oh - I don't know ... it seems to have a very beneficial effect on you.
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#82. He's naked except for those soft ripped jeans, top button casually undone. Jeez, he looks so freaking hot. My subconscious is frantically fanning herself, and my inner goddess is swaying and writhing to some primal carnal rhythm.
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#83. He smirks and cranks his glorious smile up another notch so it's in full HD IMAX.
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#85. I need him to want me like I want and need him, and deep down I know that's not possible.
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#86. Mr. Grey." I nod at him. Moving with lithe athletic grace to the door, he opens it wide. "Just ensuring you make it through the door, Miss Steele." He gives me a small smile. Obviously, he's referring to my earlier less-than-elegant entry into his office. I blush.
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#87. I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.
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#88. Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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#89. This would be a perfect day if Ray were here with us, but he's not far away. He's doing well, and I know he'd like to enjoy yourself, Ana. To all of you, thank you for coming to share my beautiful wife's birthday, the first of many to come. Happy birthday, my love. - Christian Grey
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#90. I love and I hate, and I love arguing with you. It's very new. I need to know that we're okay. It's the only way I know how.
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#91. Can we ever have a normal conversation without it disintegrating into an argument? It's exhausting
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#92. I will lay my world at your feet, Anastasia. I want you, body and soul, forever.
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#93. Good. So, Mrs. Grey . . . by popular demand, I'm going to restrain you. His
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#94. He is without a doubt the most beautiful man on the planet, too beautiful for the little people below, too beautiful for me.
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#95. He wouldn't let her work. You know, he was controlling. Some men are like that.' He gives me a quick sideways smily. 'Really? A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?' I don't think I can squeeze any more sarcasm into my response.
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#96. I am the moth and he is the flame, and I'm going to get burned. I know.
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#97. How did you become this way?"
"Why is anybody the way they are? That's kind of hard to answer.
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#98. You are mine," I whisper. "Only mine. Don't forget it.
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#100. This is my favorite place. Buried in you," he murmurs against my skin.
"Please, move," I plead.
"Slow, Mrs. Grey." He flexes his hips again and pleasure radiates through me. I cup his face and kiss him, consuming him.
"Love me. Please, Christian.
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