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Quote/Unquote with Paula Hawkins: Fifty Shades of Grey vs. Emma

Watch The Girl on the Train author guess which books these lines appear in.

By Abbe Wright • 4 years ago
Quote Unquote Paula Hawkins

Read it Forward tasked Paula Hawkins, author of the runaway bestseller The Girl on the Train (pun intended) with a difficult challenge: Determine if a line comes from Jane Austen’s 1815 novel, Emma, or if it appears in E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey (2012). It wasn’t as straightforward as you might think.

It wasn’t as straightforward as you might think. Watch here:

And if you haven’t read The Girl on the Train yet, what are you waiting for? The movie adaptation, starring Emily Blunt and Justin Theroux, is in theaters Friday!

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    The Girl on the Train (Movie Tie-In)

    Paula Hawkins

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    Emma

    Jane Austen

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    Fifty Shades of Grey (Movie Tie-in Edition)

    E L James

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