E.L. James Quotes
Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.
It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.
I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing.
The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.
What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.
If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.
An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.
This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all.
One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.
He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.
If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.
The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.
If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.
Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore
There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.
My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.
Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.