Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2026 Update)

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

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5. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

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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. “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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9. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

10. “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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11. “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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12. “No one can have everything. You’ve just got to figure out what matters. And then not let stuff what don’t matter get in the way of stuff what does.”

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13. “For the sake of verisimilitude.”

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14. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

15. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

16. “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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17. “But you had a boyfriend, and he made you happy for a while, and now it is over. And if we let happy things make us unhappy when they stopped, there would be no point having happy things.”

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

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19. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

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

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23. “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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24. “Okay, I’ll take Pretty Fly For a White Guy and you take Tall, Dark, and Deliquescing.”

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25. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

26. “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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27. “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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28. “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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29. “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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30. “You’re not a loser, Toby. You’re just lost. And it’s okay to be lost.”

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31. “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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32. “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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33. “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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34. “I’m in love with you, Lucien. But it hardly seems adequate.”

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35. “I’m not indecisive, Mother, I’m bisexual. There’s a difference.”

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36. “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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37. “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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38. “Here lies Kate Kane. Started a land war in Asia. Beloved daughter, sorely missed.”

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39. “Oh, you fuckguzzling shitweasel.”

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

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

— Alexis Hall

42. “I reckon they’d taste of stars.”

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43. “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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44. “Also they have big penises.”

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45. “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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46. “It will never stop hurting but it will stop mattering.”

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47. “It’s my responsibility to communicate to you what I’m feeling and what’s too much, and it’s your responsibility to be receptive to that communication. I don’t necessarily believe the best way for that to happen is me saying ’banoffee pie.”

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48. “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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49. “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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50. “There was an opportunity here to take the high road. I chose not to, “I ’d prefer you didn’t talk to me at all.”

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