Most Americans won't spend Valentine's Day locked away with their lovers in a Red Room of Pain like Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele. But even if chains and whips aren't on the menu for your holiday, author E.L. James's Fifty Shades series can still influence a night of romance.
The erotic, BDSM novels' main characters sent fans' hormones into overdrive. After a night of indulging in dinner, champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries, some Valentine's Day revelers may feel inclined to reenact a few of Christian and Anastasia's favorite moves (with or without the blindfolds).
To help get you in the mood for love, a list of the kinkiest quotes from Fifty Shades of Grey.
1. "Before I know it, he's got both of my hands in one of his in a vice-like grip above my head, and he's pinning me to the wall using his hips. Holy shit. His other hand grabs my ponytail and yanks down, bringing my face up, and his lips are on mine. It's only just not painful. I moan into his mouth, giving his tongue an opening. He takes full advantage, his tongue expertly exploring my mouth. I have never been kissed like this."
2. "Show me how you pleasure yourself."
3. "I pull him deeper into my mouth so I can feel him at the back of my throat and then to the front again. My tongue swirls around the end. He's my very own Christian Grey-flavored popsicle. I suck harder and harder.… Hmm.… My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves."
4. "Firstly, I don't make love. I fuck…hard."
5. "Sitting beside me, he gently pulls my sweatpants down. Up and down like a whores' drawers, my subconscious remarks bitterly. In my head, I tell her where to go. Christian squirts baby oil into his hand and then rubs my behind with careful tenderness—from makeup remover to soothing balm for a spanked ass, who would have thought it was such a versatile liquid."
6. "'Why don't you like to be touched?' I whisper, staring up into soft gray eyes. 'Because I'm fifty shades of fucked up, Anastasia.'"
7. "I'd like to bite that lip."
8. "His arms are wrapped around me, and he's pulling me to him, hard, fast, gripping my ponytail to tilt my head up, kissing me like his life depends on it."
9. "'I want you sore, baby,' he murmurs, and he continues his sweet, leisurely torment, backward, forward. 'Every time you move tomorrow, I want you to be reminded that I've been here. Only me. You are mine.'"
10. "'It's taking all my self-control not to fuck you on the hood of this car, just to show you that you're mine, and if I want to buy you a fucking car, I'll buy you a fucking car,' he growls."
11. "I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist."
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