Fifty Shades Obvious

     "You have no problem being honest with me in print. Your e-mails always tell me exactly how you feel. Why can't you do that in conversation? Do I intimidate you that much?"
     I pick at an imaginary spot on my mother's blue-and-cream quilt.
     "You beguile me, Christian. Completely overwhelmed me. I feel like Icarus flying too close to the sun," I whisper.
     He gasps, "Well, I think you've got that the wrong way around," he whispers.
     "What?"
     "Oh, Anastasia, you've bewitched me. Isn't it obvious?"


     "Do you like him?"
     "I more than like him."
     "Really?" She gapes at me.
     "Yes, Mom."
     "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."

- from Fifty Shades of Grey, E L James


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