Top 400 E.L. James Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We have to learn to walk before we can run.”

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2. “Raising the ordinary to extraordinary.”

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3. “Yes, I’m rich. Get use to it. – Christian Grey.”

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4. “I love you and all your kinky fuckery.”

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5. “You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.”

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6. “I’m drawn, Icarus to the sun. I’ve been burned already, and yet here I am again.”

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

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

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9. “We always hurt the ones we love, darling.”

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10. “I can’t bear to hurt you because I love you.”

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11. “Don’t run, please-have a little faith in me and a little patience. Please.”

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12. “Laters, baby.”

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13. “Even a pain in the ass needs someone to care about them.”

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14. “I’ve never wanted more, until I met you. – Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey.”

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15. “We aim to please Miss Steele.”

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16. “You’re the only person I’d fly three thousand miles to see.”

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17. “If you were mine, you wouldn’t be able to sit down for a week after the stunt you pulled yesterday.”

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18. “It’s not as bad as you think. Your imagination is your worst enemy in this.”

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19. “I always want more, with you.”

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20. “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”

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21. “Any relationship that you have is about negotiation – anything – whether there is a written contract or not.”

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22. “We’ve come so far together, we have so far to go, but we are made for each other. We are meant to be.”

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23. “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.”

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24. “You don’t know what you’re getting yourself into.”

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25. “Never trust a man who can dance.”

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26. “Sometimes I wonder if there’s something wrong with me. Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”

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27. “I see your pain. It’s hard knowing that I’m the one that has made you feel this way.”

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28. “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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29. “I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love. – Grace Trevelyan.”

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30. “It’s much easier to wear your pain on the outside.”

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31. “Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.”

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32. “We’ve chased the dawn, Anastasia, now the dusk.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “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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35. “Man can hope, dream even.”

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36. “My inner goddess is jumping up and down, clapping her hands like a five year old.”

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37. “I want you sore, baby.” I pull out and sink into her again. “Every time you move tomorrow, I want you to be reminded that I’ve been here. Only me. You are mine.”

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38. “Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin’s lamp all rolled into one.”

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

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40. “Enlighten me, then.”

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41. “Unconditional love – what every child deserves from its parents.”

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42. “So you’ve just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn’t love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.”

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43. “My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “It’s very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you’re not perfect.”

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46. “Inside me! I gasp, and all the muscles deep in my belly clench. My inner goddess is doing the dance of the seven veils.”

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47. “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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48. “I’m going to say hi to my girl now.”

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49. “We move in the light. We slow in the shadows. We stop in the dark.”

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50. “This is your punishment, so close and yet so far. Is this nice?”

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