N. > N.'s Quotes

“Then I should be relieved to know what I was told an hour ago is false. It wasn't you who yanked a girl--by her hair--out of chair in the common lounge area.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood

“No. No!” he says.
“I . . .” He looks wildly around the room. For inspiration? For divine intervention? I don’t know.

“You can’t go. Ana, I love you!”
“I love you, too, Christian, it’s just—”
“No . . . no!” he says in desperation and puts both hands on his head. “Christian . . .”
“No,” he breathes, his eyes wide with panic, and suddenly he drops to his knees in front of me, head bowed, long-fingered hands spread out on his thighs. He takes a deep breath and doesn’t move. What?
“Christian, what are you doing?”
He continues to stare down, not looking at me.
“Christian! What are you doing?”
My voice is high-pitched. He doesn’t move.
“Christian, look at me!” I command in panic. His head sweeps up without hesitation, and he regards me passively with his cool gray gaze—he’s almost serene . . . expectant.
Holy Fuck . . . Christian. The submissive.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

“Men aren't really complicated, Ana, honey. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said - when really it's obvious. If I were you, I'd take him literally. That might help.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Are you still mad at me?"
"Yes."
"I'll go back to sleep, then."
"Good.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed

“Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra,”
― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

“Facilis descensus Averni.”
― Virgil

“Kindness is never wasted.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Sometimes goodness doesn't tell everything it knows. Sometimes goodness waits for the appropriate time and does the best it can with what it has.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Sex that's planned like a business transaction is a turnoff for me..... Listen to yourself. Why even call it a fuck? Why not be clear and call it a seminal emission in a pre-approved orifice?" (Eva to Gideon)”
― Sylvia Day, Bared to You

“To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“Why not think that sometimes—just sometimes—you can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.”
― Alessandra Torre, Do Not Disturb

“Laters, baby.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Gentlemen are a dying breed.
Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.”
― Alessandra Torre

“A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both.”
― Alessandra Torre

“The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.”
― Alessandra Torre

“No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.”
― Alessandra Torre, The Girl in 6E

“Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should've been illegal.”
― Sylvia Day, Reflected in You

“Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.”
― Sylvia Day, Reflected in You

“I've never wanted more, until I met you. - Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey”
― E.L. James

“I loved mornings on the island. Fucking loved them. Emphasis on fucking.”
― Shay Savage, Surviving Raine

“Your…acceptance of me,” I said. “That’s really my favorite thing about you. I don’t know why you put up with my shit, but I’m glad you do.”
― Shay Savage, Surviving Raine

“Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.”
― Teresa Mummert

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist