The passages people are picking out to highlight in Grey, though, show me yet again how ebooks are changing the way we read. That would answer her ridiculous question.” To which the only response can be: thank God his family didn’t ask. How dare she! I have a sudden urge to drag her out of her seat, bend her over my knee, spank her, and then fuck her on my desk with her hands tied behind her back. Grey?’ What the hell! I cannot believe she’s said that out loud! Ironically, the question even my own family will not ask. Yeah, yeah, baby, it’s just a face, and it’s only skin deep”, or “‘Are you gay, Mr. I can’t decide if my favourites are “She gapes at me, and I resist rolling my eyes. And I much, much prefer the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books collection of the top 13 terrible lines from Grey – I challenge you to get through it without laughing. Clasping both her hands, I pin them above her head so she can’t touch me, and once she’s secure, I twist my other hand in her hair while my lips seek and find hers.”īut really, they’re nowhere near X-rated. I’ll admit there’s a bit of shenanigans going on in some of the highlights – the raciest of which features the octopus-armed, questing-lipped Christian showing his dominance: “‘Oh, fuck the paperwork.’ The words come from nowhere and on instinct I grab her and push her against the wall. His “A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled” appears as a somewhat impenetrable Jane Austen-esque maxim which is cited as Christian’s “guiding principle” (though nothing is impenetrable for Mr Fifty Shades, I guess). Then there’s the dazzling insight of “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”, or “the growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership”, which I discover follows the timeless line: “Flaunting my erudition, I quote the words of Andrew Carnegie, my favourite industrialist.”Ī number of the highlighted quotes, incidentally, are Christian quoting other people, be it a bastardised Thomas Hardy (“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks”), or Carnegie, who pops up again a little later.
“Only when the last leaf has fallen, the last tree has died, and the last fish been caught will we realise that we cannot eat money,” he opines in one highlighted passage, paraphrasing a Native American proverb.
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