452 Quotes by E.L. James

What a time to have a brain-to-mouth filter malfunction.

I never know what you’re thinking. Sometimes you’re so closed off... like an island slate. You intimidate me. That’s why I keep quiet. I don’t know which way your mood is going to go. It swings from north to south and back again in a nanosecond.

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

No!” It’s my turn to sound exasperated. “Introduce you to my dad as what? ‘This is the man who deflowered me and wants us to start a BDSM relationship’? You’re not wearing running shoes.

And I remember when she first fell into my office how ordinary I thought she looked. She is anything but ordinary. With a little makeup and the right clothes, she’s a goddess.

I gasp, and I’m Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he’s the serpent, and I cannot resist.

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.

You are mine,” I whisper. “Only mine. Don’t forget it.

There is something about Christian that is old-fashioned and romantic.