Character: Anastasia Steele

- What do you want to know?
- The whole truth!
My mother died of a drug overdose when I was four years old. Then everything is obvious.
- Why didn't you tell me?
Told, but in that moment you were sound asleep.
OK... well, usually the key to good conversation is that both parties are conscious.

- ... Jada wondered about the new Karuzi...
Yeah, Jack had to approve it.
- Yes, but he often scored to work. Haven't you noticed?
Yes. He called it a creative temperament.

- Business is based on people. And I'm well versed in them: what motivates them, what they want, what inspires them.
- Maybe you just got lucky?
The more I work, the luckier I get.

- ... My mother is an incurable romantic.
- And you?
Romantic I? When studying literature, has to be.

- I may be wrong, but I think you're trying to hide your good heart.
- Many say I have no heart.
- Why do they think so?
- Know me well.

I take a deep breath and close my eyes. I feel like a two year old child, if I close my eyes I like I'm not.

- Do you have to cause someone pain?
Yes.
Why?
- Everything is interconnected, Anastasia. I do it all. See you're nervous. Let's discuss the types of pain.
He shows me the list. My subconscious screams, runs away and hides behind the sofa.

Unconditional love - a gift which is received from the parents of all children.

It is foolish to grieve for what was not - about the unfulfilled hopes, broken dreams, misguided expectations.

I fell in love with an emotionally private person, and nothing good comes out of that love will come.

How does he do it? He only lightly touched my arm, and hormones are already satisfied with pandemonium.

- You know what they say: sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet Prince charming.
I crooked grin.
Have I already met my Prince, mom. I hope he doesn't turn into a frog.

We seem to balance on the seesaw of our strange relationship - insecure are at different ends, and throws us up and down. We both need to get closer to the middle. I hope no one will fall in the process. Everything happens too fast.

Relationship that Christian wants to involve me more like a job offer: specific hours, duties and a pretty harsh dispute resolution. This is not how I imagined my first novel...