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I've been the oldest child since before you were born


E.L. Konigsburg

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E.L. KONIGSBURG ...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia
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ANTHONY EDWARDS You were about to tell me something, child, but you left off before you began.
WILLIAM CONGREVE I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.
ELIE WIESEL You were born as the one you are.
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PROVERB I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Shes been the biggest nightmare for me. Ive lost to her the most than any other player.
MEGHANN SHAUGHNESSY I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
HANK AZARIA I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.
FRED KOREMATSU Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
LACEY SCHWIMMER Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mista...
OLIVER GASPIRTZ Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myse...
ARTHUR GOLDEN Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not ha...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not ...
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FRAN LEBOWITZ What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
DAVID BROOKS Congratulations to your mom and dad for birth of a sweet child!

Sorry that I couldn't wis...
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AMBER FAITH HUN You were born with potential.
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"Yes."
"I'll go back to sleep, then."
"Good.
E.L. JAMES Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E.L. DOCTOROW Anatasia
You Are My More
My Love, My Life
Christian
E.L. JAMES I've never wanted more, until I met you.
E.L. JAMES I've never wanted more, until I met you. - Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. JAMES I have fallen for someone who's so emotionally shut down, I will only get hurt- deep down I know thi...
E.L. JAMES Anastasia Steele. I love you. I want to love, cherish, and protect you for the rest of my life. Be m...
E.L. JAMES We have to learn to walk before we can run
E.L. JAMES I love him. Simple.
E.L. JAMES From: Christian Grey
Subject: My Life's Mission...
Date: September 5, 2011 09:25
To: ...
E.L. JAMES I want your world to begin and end with me.
E.L. JAMES You’re the only person I’d fly three thousand miles to see.
E.L. JAMES I don't know whether to worship at your feet or spank the living shit out of you.
E.L. JAMES I've kissed a prince, Mom. I hope it doesn't turn into a frog.
E.L. JAMES Never trust a man who can dance.
E.L. JAMES We aim to please Miss Steele
E.L. JAMES You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince
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E.L. JAMES Men aren't really complicated, Ana, honey. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mea...
E.L. JAMES Are you on your own?"
"No. There are six people staring at me right now wondering who the hell ...
E.L. JAMES You wanted hearts and flowers,” he murmurs.
I blink at him, not quite believing what I’m se...
E.L. JAMES Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of...
E.L. JAMES I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never wa...
E.L. JAMES Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss...
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E.L. JAMES Good evening, Mrs. Grey," Christian says softly. He's standing by the piano, dressed in a tight blac...
E.L. JAMES Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.
E.L. JAMES I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.
E.L. JAMES I'd like to bite that lip.
E.L. JAMES It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.
E.L. JAMES I was waiting for you," he says softly, his eyes dark gray and luminous.
"That's... that's such...
E.L. JAMES He makes me graceful, that's his skill. He makes me sexy, because that's what he is. He makes me fee...
E.L. JAMES I still want more," I whisper. "I know," he says. "I'll try." I blink up at him, and he reliquishes ...
E.L. JAMES My subconscious is furious, medusa-like in her anger, hair flying, her hands clenched around her fac...
E.L. JAMES My inner goddess is jumping up and down, clapping her hands like a five year old.
E.L. JAMES So you’ll get your kicks by exerting your will over me.”
“It’s about gaining your trust...
E.L. JAMES Why don't you like me ?" "Because you never stay with me.
E.L. JAMES Inside me! I gasp, and all the muscles deep in my belly clench. My inner goddess is doing the dance ...
E.L. JAMES Of course. Silly me. Such a sad, exciting score, which no doubt you can play? So many accomplishment...
E.L. JAMES [Ana] “You’re a sadist?”
“I’m a Dominant.” His eyes are a scorching gray, intense.<...
E.L. JAMES Your stepfather? I'd like to meet him."
Oh no... why?
"I'm not sure that's a good idea." E.L. JAMES I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist.
E.L. JAMES Oh, fuck the paperwork
E.L. JAMES This is a man in need. His fear is naked and obvious, but he's lost. . . Somewhere in his darkness.<...
E.L. JAMES Are you smirking at me, Mr. Grey?” I ask sweetly. Pompous ass.
E.L. JAMES Supposing I’ve said I hate him, or worse still, that I love him, in my sleep.
E.L. JAMES He's naked except for those soft ripped jeans, top button casually undone. Jeez, he looks so freakin...
E.L. JAMES I am going to have coffee with Christian Grey... and I hate coffee.
E.L. JAMES His head turns fractionally toward me, his eyes darkest slate. I bite my lip.
“Oh, fuck the p...
E.L. JAMES He grabs me suddenly and yanks me up against him, one hand at my back holding me to him and the othe...
E.L. JAMES What is it about elevators?
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E.L. JAMES Soy más del tipo de chica de hacerse-ovillo-con-un-libro-en-una-cómoda-silla-junto-al-fuego.
E.L. JAMES This is all I know, too. Perhaps together we can chart a new course.
E.L. JAMES You're not celibate, then?" I breathe.
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E.L. JAMES From: Christian Grey
Subject: &*%$&*&*
Date: August 23 2011 11:23
To: Ana...
E.L. JAMES I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto.
E.L. JAMES We didn’t-?” I whisper, my mouth drying in mortified horror as I can’t complete the question. ...
E.L. JAMES Coveralls," I reply, and I know I'm no longer screening what's coming out of my mouth.
He raise...
E.L. JAMES Subject: Sundown
Date: June 14 2011 09:35
To: Christian Grey

Dear Completely &a...
E.L. JAMES You are one brave woman," he whispers, "I am in awe of you.
E.L. JAMES And the baby?" The words are anguished, breathless.
"The baby's fine, Mr. Grey."
"Oh, than...
E.L. JAMES You've brushed your teeth," He says, staring at me.
"I used your toothbrush."
His lips qui...
E.L. JAMES It's because I'm pregnant, Christian."
He snorts, and his mouth twists into an ironic smile. "I...
E.L. JAMES Life is never going to be boring with Christian, and I’m in this for the long haul. I love this ma...
E.L. JAMES I want you, Anastasia,” he murmurs. “I love and I hate, and I love arguing with you. It’s very...
E.L. JAMES We’ve chased the dawn, Anastasia, now the dusk.
E.L. JAMES P.S. I also note that you included the Stalker's Anthem "Every Breath You Take" I do enjoy our sense...
E.L. JAMES You love strapping me in, don’t you?”
“In any form,” he says, a wicked grin playing on...
E.L. JAMES There's a joy in my helplessness, joy in my surrender to him, and to know that he can lose himself i...
E.L. JAMES Sweet Jesus, you're wearing stockings."--Christian Grey
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E.L. JAMES But I'm a selfish man. I've wanted you since you fell into my office. You are exquisite, honest, war...
E.L. JAMES There's something about you Anastasia, that calls to me on some deep level I don't understand. It's ...
E.L. JAMES I lay awake for hours and watched you sleep," he murmurs. "I might have loved you even then.
E.L. JAMES Let me love you," he says hoarsely.
"Yes," I answer, and turning, he hauls me into his arms, hi...
E.L. JAMES So you're my boss now," I snap.
"Technically, I'm you're boss's boss's boss."
"And technic...
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E.L. JAMES I thought I'd broken you."
"Broken? Me? Oh no, Ana. Just the opposite."
He reaches out and...
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E.L. MONTES Where’s the ice cream?”
“In the oven.
E.L. JAMES Hearts and flowers—that's not who I am.
E.L. JAMES The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' nam...
E.L. DOCTOROW Oh... Blip. Yeah, I see." He sounds distracted, awed.
"Your child," I whisper.
"Our child...
E.L. JAMES You smell heavenly. I slept on your side of your side of the bed because your pillow smells of you.
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E.L. JAMES -Prometo solemnemente que te protegeré y que valoraré profundamente en mi corazón nuestra unión ...
E.L. JAMES If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.
E.L. JAMES I glance down his body. He's still wearing his shorts and his shirt, and I still have my T-shirt on....
E.L. JAMES There’s a gun in your desk. It’s fully loaded.”
“How do you know?” His frown deepens....
E.L. JAMES The platinum Omega watch he gave me at breakfast on our first morning in London obscures the red lin...
E.L. JAMES God, I’m a lucky son of a bitch.” - Christian Grey
E.L. JAMES Your lips are so soft when you cry.
E.L. JAMES Mine," he whispers.
"Yours," I breathe.
E.L. JAMES I need you." Every pore of my being is begging. This is what we do.
E.L. JAMES grow up and smell the fucking coffee!
E.L. JAMES We always hurt the ones we love, darling.
E.L. JAMES He mumbles in his sleep, "Don't touch me. No more. Only Ana.:
E.L. JAMES Just remember that men are from a different planet, and you'll be fine.
E.L. JAMES You know, you’re topping from the bottom,” he murmurs against my lips.
“What?” I don’...
E.L. JAMES Oh my, the look he gives me could be solely responsible for global warming.
E.L. JAMES I know you've always dreamed of going to Europe," he says softly. "I want to make your dreams come t...
E.L. JAMES Unwrapping the paper carefully so it doesn’t tear, I find a beautiful red leather
box. Cartie...
E.L. JAMES My inner goddes has her sequins on and is warming up to dance the rumba.
E.L. JAMES My world was ordered, calm, and controlled, then you came into my life with your smart mouth, your i...
E.L. JAMES I always want more, with you.
E.L. JAMES Oh Christian... my possessive, jealous, control freak Christian.
E.L. JAMES It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside...
E.L. JAMES I hate fighting with you,” he whispers.
“Well, stop being such an arse.”
He chuckles...
E.L. JAMES Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp ...
E.L. JAMES Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can...
E.L. DOCTOROW The easy way out is the choice of the myopic.
E.L. NEVE I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicativ...
E.L. DOCTOROW So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has...
E.L. JAMES Do you trust me Ana?"
Ana! "Yes,I do."I respond spontaneously, not thinking...because it's true...
E.L. JAMES Suddenly, as one, all the Greys stop talking and gape at Christian.
What?
Christian is s...
E.L. JAMES It is because baptism is a real insertion of human beings into the ascended manhood of Christ that t...
E.L. MASCALL Lying in my bed, I pray for a dreamless sleep... but if I am to dream, I want to dream of her.
E.L. JAMES You dazzle me so much I find it very difficult to think clearly when we're together.
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E.L. JAMES Goodbye, Christian," I murmur.

"Ana, goodbye," he says softly, and he looks utterly, utte...
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E.L. JAMES I shrug, trapped. I don’t want to lose him. In spite of all his demands, his need to control, his ...
E.L. JAMES I love you and all your kinky fuckery
E.L. JAMES She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you ...
E.L. DOCTOROW It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.
E.L. DOCTOROW I flush,and my inner goddess grabs a rose between her teeth and starts to tango.
E.L. JAMES He does, and his eyes shoot to mine, wide and gray, alive with wonder and joy. His lip part in disbe...
E.L. JAMES His magic is powerful, intoxicating. I'm a butterfly caught in his net, unable and unwilling to esca...
E.L. JAMES And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. ...
E.L. JAMES Love is for fools, Christian.
E.L. JAMES