Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My cock actually sort of staggers like a punch-drunk boxer who doesn’t know when to stay down.”

— Alexis Hall

2. “That’s so sexy,” said Julian dryly. “Hamster cheeks totally do it for me.”

— Alexis Hall

3. “A little rimming and you’re anybody’s.”

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4. “I wish I could sleep. I wish I could stop thinking. But my mind has always been its own enemy.”

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5. “I am yours, more truly than I have ever been anyone’s. Because when I’m with you, I’m me. Not someone I think I should be. And I’ll be with you, however you want, for as long as you’ll have me.”

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6. “Small acts of defiance, he well knew, could become great acts of rebellion, and little intimacies could become alliances or passions that shaped lives and worlds.”

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7. “I was thirty-seven years old and wearing nothing but a butt plug. But there was a 1940′s film-star Toby, looking about to spontaneously combust from sheer desire. It was probably hysterical postpubescent hormones, but still, it felt so good. So ridiculously good.”

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8. “Then we’ll be lost together, and we’ll figure it out together. Whatever that means. Whatever it takes. I’m with you, and I’ll be with you for as long as you want me.”

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9. “And I think I kind of break him just a little bit because suddenly he’s begging and begging and begging, the words catching and then tumbling from his mouth like pearls on a broken string. And.”

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10. “For the sake of verisimilitude.”

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11. “Please don’t leave me again,” he whispered. “I think I could learn to live without you, but I have no wish to.”

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12. “So instead let me simply tell you that I love you. I love you with the unfading flame of my friendship. With every drop of ardour in my blood. I love you with my soul, as some reserve their faith for absent gods. I love you as I believe in what is right and hope for what is good. I love you with everything I am and ever was – and if you will only let me, with every day that comes, and every self that I could ever be.”

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13. “I’m still me. We’re all built of pieces really, the things that have happened to us and the people we love, and change is as inevitable as the tide, smoothing us into sea glass. It’s nothing to be feared. I have Alfie to thank for this as well. He found me, when I most needed to be found, and helped me find myself again.”

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14. “But it’s sometimes nice to know you’ve got Calvados foam in your future. Even though I’m a bit dubious about foams in general. Sometimes they end up looking like you’ve spit all over the plate. Not good.”

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15. “It’s all I’ve ever wanted, really. Someone to make tea for. To know how they like to drink it, and share some pieces of time with them at the end of long days, and short ones, good days and bad, and everything in between.”

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16. “I don’t know how to promise you that I won’t overreact, or lash out, or say something I shouldn’t. All I can promise, and I really think it’s what I should be promising, is that I’ll be honest with you about... about what’s going on with me.”

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17. “I think it’s usually better to face the world as it is. The more we try to hide from something, the more power we give it.”

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18. “Since our ability to successfully cowork was built upon a mutual understanding that we would never, ever speak to each other in person.”

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19. “But I suppose it comes down to whether you think dominance and submission are about acts or about people.”

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20. “Life is so full of rough edges – small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you’re naked and alone.”

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21. “I found an easy-lift manhole cover just off Farringdon Road. Despite the name, it was not, in fact, easy to lift. I guess the council wanted to discourage casual sewer tourism.”

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22. “Beneath his hands, my skin is so light and tight I half imagine I’m transparent. I’m glass for him, all the way to my blood-red, shining heart.”

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23. “I’m in love with you, Lucien. But it hardly seems adequate.”

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24. “She wouldn’t understand, and he couldn’t explain. How bad it felt to be a shock. To be an idea people had to get used to. To be a moment of hesitation. A flinch when someone touched you. A wariness in their eyes.”

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25. “I don’t have many friends, but I think you’re one of them. And friends don’t send friends to get their souls sucked out.”

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26. “What use to the sane, after all, are the words of the mad?”

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27. “No, listen. There is actually a choice here. And the choice is, either you never trust anybody ever again, and pretend that stops people hurting you when clearly it doesn’t. Or, um, don’t do that. And maybe your house will burn down. But, at least you’ll be warm. And probably the next place will be better. And come with an induction hob.”

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28. “She has very high standards.” “Maybe. Or maybe she’s-and I’m having trouble putting this in a nonjudgemental away-maybe she’s got into the habit of criticising you and hasn’t paid attention to how much that messes you up.”

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29. “Let’s be clear,” I told him, trying to match his air of casual mateyness. “I’m glad you’re happy. You and JoJo seem like you’ll be great together. But we are never going to be friends because you will always be the guy who sold me out for the price of a Toyota Supra.”

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30. “The world teaches men to listen only to what they want to hear and women to tell it to them.”

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31. “We’re going to need backup, aren’t we?” “Backup? We’re going to need front-up. And maybe side-up as well.”

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32. “Depression simply is. It has no beginning and no end, no boundaries and no world outside itself. It is the first, the last, the only, the alpha and the omega. Memories of better times die upon its desolate shores. Voices drown in its seas. The mind becomes its own prisoner.”

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33. “La mia intera esistenza si riassumeva nell’atto dell’attesa: l’attesa della malattia e quella della guarigione si alternavano, divorandosi l’un l’altra.”

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34. “That’s the plan then, is it?” Ashriel spread his hands despairingly. “We assemble an unlikely team of misfits, descend into the sewers, and learn important lessons about friendship while getting murdered by faeries.”

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35. “I live off my wife. It’s extremely modern and feminist of me.”

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36. “Here lies Kate Kane. Started a land war in Asia. Beloved daughter, sorely missed.”

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37. “This was Caspian Hart. Not speaking to you for three months, then glaring at you coldly was practically his love language.”

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38. “Oliver was using his you’re-being-mean-to-me-and-I-secretly-like-it voice, which was just different enough from his ou’re-being-mean-to-me-and-I-very-much-don’t-like-it voice that we’d avoided some major misunderstandings.”

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39. “The conversation hadn’t so much died on us as been taken out back and shot in the head. And I knew I should be playing paramedic but I couldn’t quite bring myself to or work out how.”

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40. “I reckon they’d taste of stars.”

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41. “You can always draw a straight line between two points, but it doesn’t actually mean they’re connected.”

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42. “It was a rhetorical aubergine.”

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43. “It will never stop hurting but it will stop mattering.”

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44. “It’s my birthday. If I want to dress up like an idiot and make you all eat prawn cocktail in celebration of the decades that spawned me, that’s my choice, and you will damn well support it.”

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45. “You are wonderful. But you need to believe that I don’t like you in spite of all... all of that. I like you because you’re you, and all of that is part of you... And, anyway, I don’t like you – I mean, I do like you, but you should probably know that I love you as well.”

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46. “Love doesn’t just go away when it becomes inconvenient.”

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47. “I remembered that I hated school trips. They involved putting a bunch of people who only knew each other in a very specific context into a very different context and expecting everything to work. And it never did.”

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48. “He was gorgeous yesterday, kneeling and burnished and kind of a fantasy. And he’s still gorgeous this morning, rumpled and tired and real.”

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49. “If you were mine, I’d want to make you feel safe and I’d make sure you never forget the extraordinary man you are.”

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50. “I’m kind of a lube fiend. And I definitely don’t think I’m a sufficiently high-level sodomite for him to cruise in on saliva and a fair wind.”

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