E L James Quotes

How could he mean so much to me in such a short time? ~ E.L. James

Room is the wrong word. It's not a room - it's a mission statement. ~ E.L. James

I flush at the waywardness of my subconscious - she's doing her happy dance in a bright red hula skirt ~ E.L. James

You want to play on your Xbox?" I ask. He laughs loudly. "No, Anastasia, no Xbox, no Playstation. Come. ~ E.L. James

She is sunshine, she is light...she is his. ~ E.L. James

Your stepfather? I'd like to meet him."
Oh no ... why?
"I'm not sure that's a good idea."
Christian unlocks the door, his mouth in a grim line.
"Are you ashamed of me?"
"No!" It's my turn to sound exasperated. "Introduce you to my dad as what? 'This is the man who deflowered me and wants to start a BDSM relationship'. You're not wearing running shoes. ~ E.L. James

Raising the ordinary to extraordinary ~ E.L. James

You're not celibate, then?" I breathe.
Amusement lights up his eyes.
"No, Anastasia, I'm not celibate. ~ E.L. James

I'd never beat you black and blue. I aim for pink.
Christian Grey ~ E.L. James

I don't know whether to worship at your feet or spank the living shit out of you. ~ E.L. James

He mumbles in his sleep, Don't touch me. No more. Only Ana.: ~ E.L. James

He's like several different people in one body. Isn't that a symptom of schizophrenia? I must Google that. ~ E.L. James

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other. ~ E.L. James

I know I've not had these things in my past, but I want them in my future. ~ E.L. James

There is so much to see - little alleys and passageways leading to courtyards with intricate stone fountains, ancient and modern sculptures, and fascinating little boutiques and shops. ~ E.L. James

Covering the essentials, and holds out a larger fluffy white towel ~ E.L. James

My inner goddess fist-pumps the air above her chaise lounge. ~ E.L. James

I want to stay in her mind. I need to stay in her mind. ~ E.L. James

You are one brave woman," he whispers, "I am in awe of you. ~ E.L. James

I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies. ~ E.L. James

You certainly know how to silence a room." -Ana
"I do it all the time", he says, and he grins at me. ~ E.L. James

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

Each day will be darker and emptier, because she's no longer in it. ~ E.L. James

Do you know what you mean to me?" he murmurs, "If something happened to you, because of me ... " His voice trails off, his brow creasing, and the pain that flashes across his face is almost palpable. He looks so vulnerable - his fear very much apparent. ~ E.L. James

I open the red leather box and examine the earrings. They are beautiful: simple yet elegant, just like the enchanting Miss Steele ... who left me this morning because I punished her ... because I pushed her too hard. I cradle my head once again. But she let me. She didn't stop me. She let me because she loves me. The thought is horrifying, and I dismiss it immediately. She can't. It's simple: no one can feel like that about me. Not if they know me. ~ E.L. James

He holds out his hand, and in his palm are two shiny silver balls linked with a thick black thread ... Inside me! I gasp, and all the muscles deep in my belly clench. My inner goddess is doing the dance of the seven veils ... Oh my ... It's a curious feeling. Once they're inside me, I can't really feel them - but then again I know they're there ... Oh my ... I may have to keep these. They make me needy, needy for sex. ~ E.L. James

She gasps at the sight that greets her.

The florists have gone to town. There are wild meadow flowers everywhere, in pinks and whites and blues, all lit by tiny fairy lights and soft pink lanterns.

Yes. This will do.

Ana is stunned. She whips around and gapes at me.

"You wanted hearts and flowers."

She stares at me in disbelief.

"You have my heart." And I wave at the room.

"And here are the flowers," she murmurs. "Christian, it's lovely." Her voice is hoarse and I know she's close to tears.

Plucking up my courage, I lead her farther into the room. In the center of the arbor, I sink onto one knee. Ana catches her breath, and her hands fly to her mouth. From my inside jacket pocket, I pull out the ring and hold it up for her.

"Anastasia Steele. I love you. I want to love, cherish, and protect you for the rest of my life. Be mine. Always. Share my life with me. Marry me."

She is the love of my life.

It will only ever be Ana.

Her tears start to fall in earnest but her smile eclipses the moon, the stars, the sun, and all the flowers in the boathouse. ~ E.L. James

A man of your advanced years is surely a little deaf." "Sorry, could you speak up? I can't hear you. ~ E.L. James

And so a pattern develops: wake, work cry. sleep. I can't even escape him in my dreams. Gray burning eyes, his lost look, his hair burnished and bright and bright all haunt me. 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

Besides ... anticipation is the key to seduction, and right now, I'm really into delayed gratification. ~ E.L. James

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. ~ E.L. James

Would you let me drive this?" I ask, surprised that I say the words out loud.
"Of course," Christian replies, smiling. "What's mine is yours. If you dent it, though, I will take you into the Red Room of Pain." He glances swiftly at me with a malicious grin.
"You're kidding. You'd punish me for denting your car? You love your car more than you love me?" I tease.
"It's close," he says and reaches across to squeeze my knee, "But she doesn't keep me warm at night."
"I'm sure it could be arranged. You could sleep in her," I snap.
Christian laughs. "We haven't been home one day and you're kicking me out already?" He seems delighted. ~ E.L. James

She holds out her hands in entreaty. Join me, she whispers, but she's moving backward, getting fainter ... disappearing before my eyes ... vanishing ... she's gone. No! I shout. No! But I have no voice. I have nothing. I'm mute. Mute ... again. ~ E.L. James

I promise to love you faithfully, forsaking all others, through the good times and the bad, in sickness and in health, regardless of where life takes us. I will protect you, trust you, and respect you. I will share your joys and sorrows and comfort you in times of need. I promise to cherish you and uphold your hopes and dreams and keep you safe at my side. All that is mine is now yours. I give you my hand, my heart, and my love from this moment on for as long as we both shall live. ~ E.L. James

We've come so far together, we have so far to go, but we are made for each other. We are meant to be. ~ E.L. James

The unfamiliar feeling surfaces, swelling in my chest, unnamed and dangerous. ~ E.L. James

I think women love a passionate love story. ~ E.L. James

After you've taken so much trouble to set up recorder, you ask me now? ~ E.L. James

No man has ever affected me the way Christian Grey has, and I cannot fathom why. Is it his looks? His civility? Wealth? Power? I don't understand my irrational reaction. ~ E.L. James

I've flown from Seattle just to see you, and the way you look right now, it was really worth the journey. ~ E.L. James

I've never been comfortable with one-on-one interviews, preferring the anonymity of a group discussion where I can sit inconspicuously at the back of the room. To be honest, I prefer my own company, reading a classic British novel, curled up in a chair in the campus library. Not sitting twitching nervously in a colossal glass-and-stone edifice. ~ E.L. James

I pull her pillow over my face to breathe in her scent. It's torture, it's heaven, and for a moment I contemplate death by suffocation. Get a grip, Grey. ~ E.L. James

I smile at the thought. And finally, there's a key. "To my heart and soul," he whispers. Tears prick my eyes. I launch myself at him, curling my arms around his neck and settling into his lap. "It's such a thoughtful present. I love it. Thank you," I murmur against his ear. Oh, he smells so good - clean, of fresh linen, body wash, and Christian. Like home, my home. My threatened tears begin to fall. ~ E.L. James

I flush,and my inner goddess grabs a rose between her teeth and starts to tango. ~ E.L. James

Why, oh why have I fallen for someone who is plain crazy - beautiful, sexy as fuck, richer than Croesus, and crazy with a capital K? ~ E.L. James

Veneration. It's as if he's worshipping me. He teases me ~ E.L. James

Who's he kidding? He's no gentleman. He has my panties ~ E.L. James

I could gaze at him all day, but I have needs. Bathroom needs. ~ E.L. James

My heart sinks. Shit - it's like he's my dad. ~ E.L. James

We're going to rectify the situation right now."
"What do you mean? What situation?"
"Your situation. Ana, I'm going to make love to you, now."
"Oh." The floor has fallen away. I'm a situation. I'm holding my breath.
"That's if you want to, I mean, I don't want to push my luck."
"I thought you didn't make love. I thought you fucked hard." I swallow, my mouth suddenly dry.
He gives me a wicked grin, the effects of which travel all the way down there.
"I can make an exception, or maybe combine the two, we'll see. I really want to make love to you. Please, come to bed with me. I want our arrangement to work, but you re­ally need to have some idea what you're getting yourself into. We can start your training tonight – with the basics. This doesn't mean I've come over all hearts and flowers, it's a means to an end, but one that I want, and hopefully you do too." His gray gaze is intense ~ E.L. James

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 want to buy you a fucking car, I'll buy you a fucking car Christian Grey ~ E.L. James

I want you to throw the fucking book at him, Dad - Christian Grey ~ E.L. James

You said you loved me, is that now in the past tense?" "No, it's not." "Good. ~ E.L. James

If he wants me to stay away, he should leave me alone. ~ E.L. James

Um. I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto. Stop talking. Stop talking NOW. ~ E.L. James

You never cease to amaze me, Anastasia. After a day like today - or yesterday, rather - you're not whining or running off into the hills screaming. I am in awe of you. You're very strong."
"You're a very good reason to stay," I murmur. ~ E.L. James

You are one fucked up son of a bitch! - Anastasia Steele ~ E.L. James

He doesn't look like a CEO - he looks like a bad boy from the wrong side of town. Holy cow, he's so fucking sexy. ~ E.L. James

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. ~ E.L. James

I would have told you earlier, but as it was your birthday ... What do you give the man who has everything? I thought I'd give you ... me."
He puts the keychain down on the bedside table and snuggles in beside me, pulling me into his arms against his chest so that we're spooning.
"It's perfect. Like you. ~ E.L. James

My life would be empty without you. ~ E.L. James

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. ~ E.L. James

Subject: Sundown
Date: June 14 2011 09:35
To: Christian Grey
Dear Completely & Utterly Smitten
I love waking up with you, too. But I love being in bed with you and in elevators and on pianos and billiard tables and boats and desks and showers and bathtubs and strange wooden crosses with shackles and four poster beds with red satin sheets and boathouses and childhood bedrooms.
Yours
Sex Mad and Insatiable xx ~ E.L. James

Don't get your panties in such a twist ... and give me back mine. ~ E.L. James

I need him to want me like I want and need him, and deep down I know that's not possible. ~ E.L. James

Grey doesn't do nice. He does polite, maybe. And ~ E.L. James

I still want more," I whisper. "I know," he says. "I'll try." I blink up at him, and he reliquishes my hand and pulls at my chin, releasing my trapped lip. "For you, Anastasia, I will try. ~ E.L. James

I thought I'd broken you."
"Broken? Me? Oh no, Ana. Just the opposite."
He reaches out and takes my hand. "You're my lifeline'" he whispers. ~ E.L. James

Only when the last leaf has fallen, the last tree has died, and the last fish been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money. ~ E.L. James

I have become my own island state. A ravaged, war-torn land where nothing grows and the horizons are bleak. Yes, that's me. I can interact impersonally at work, but that's it. ~ E.L. James

I'd really like to tie you up right now - Christian Grey ~ E.L. James

I was holding you and you were looking up at me all 'kiss me, kiss me, Christian'," he pauses and shrugs slightly, "I felt I owed you an apology and a warning. ~ E.L. James

Okay," I mumble, completely bemused, bewildered, and shell-shocked. He leans over my desk. What now? I am caught in his hypnotic gaze. "Love doing business with you, Mrs. Grey." He leans in closer as I sit paralyzed, and he plants a soft tender kiss on my lips. "Laters baby," he murmurs. He stands abruptly, winks at me, and leaves. I lay my head on my desk, feeling like I've been run over by a freight train – the freight train that is my beloved husband. He has to be the most frustrating, annoying, contrary man on the planet. I sit up and frantically rub my eyes. What have I just agreed to? ~ E.L. James

I hunt in the refrigerator and find some maple syrup. ~ E.L. James

I'm her lost boy, now found. ~ E.L. James

I want my world to start and end with you. ~ E.L. James

You're my lifeline, he whispers, and he kisses my knuckles before pressing my palm against his. ~ E.L. James

I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream. ~ E.L. James

But I'm a selfish man. I've wanted you since you fell into my office. You are exquisite, honest, warm, strong, witty, beguilingly innocent; the list is endless. I'm in awe of you. I want you, and the thought of anyone else having you is like a knife twisting in my dark soul. ~ E.L. James

I don't. That's the point. I feel about punishment the way you feel about me touching you. ~ E.L. James

This is a man in need. His fear is naked and obvious, but he's lost ... Somewhere in his darkness.
His eyes wide and bleak and tortured. I can soothe him. Join him briefly in the darkness and bring him into the light. ~ E.L. James

It's obvious this is her first love ...
Books.
(Grey) ~ E.L. James

To: Christian Grey
Dear Completely & Utterly Smitten
I love waking up to you, too. But I love being in bed with you and in elevators and on pianos and billiard tables and boats and desks and showers and bathtubs and strange wooden crosses with shackels and four-poster beds with red satin sheets and boathouses and childhood bedrooms. ~ E.L. James

We have to learn to walk before we can run ~ E.L. James

I may need you to accompany me to functions, and I want you dressed well. I'm sure your salary, when you do get a job, won't cover the kind of clothes I'd like you to wear."
"I don't have to wear them when I'm not with you?"
"No."
"Okay." Think of them as uniform. ~ E.L. James

Know some hunky guys, she hisses conspiratorially ~ E.L. James

I fondle the last two charms: a letter C- oh yes, I was his first girlfriend to use his first name. I smile at the thought. And finally, there's a key.
"To my heart and soul," he whispers. ~ E.L. James

His voice is warm and husky like dark melted chocolate fudge Caramel ... or something. ~ E.L. James

My favorite sound in the whole world is your giggle, Anastasia. ~ E.L. James

How can i eat now? I'm going to Seattle by helicopter with Christian Gray..And he wants to bite my lip.. ~ E.L. James

wooden X is on the ~ E.L. James

I hug him tightly. "I can't imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me." "Me, too," he breathes. "My life would be empty without you. I love you so much. ~ E.L. James

You intoxicate me, Miss Steele, and you calm me. Such a heady combination. ~ E.L. James

I nod, and taking my tea, I head into the library. It's my refuge. I dig my BlackBerry out of my purse and contemplate calling Christian. I know it's a shock for him - but he really did overreact. When does he not overreact? ~ E.L. James

Palm twitching mad, especially now ~ E.L. James

My belief is to achieve success in any scheme one has to make oneself master of that scheme, know it inside and out, know every detail. ~ E.L. James

I craved the escape that fiction provided. ~ E.L. James

I wrap my arms around my body, hugging myself tightly, holding myself together. I miss him. I really miss him ... I love him. Simple. ~ E.L. James

Woke me up," she whispers. "I'm sure it did." I'm fascinated. "What were you dreaming about?" "You," she says in a small voice. ~ E.L. James

I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto. ~ E.L. James