Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2024 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. “For the sake of verisimilitude.”

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5. “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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6. “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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7. “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

8. “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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9. “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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10. “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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11. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

13. “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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14. “I reckon they’d taste of stars.”

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15. “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

16. “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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17. “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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18. “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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19. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

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21. “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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22. “Photograph’ does not have its moments,” I yelled. “No Ed Sheeran song has moments. I can’t believe I’m marrying someone who thought ‘Photograph’ had moments.”

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23. “He was silent for a very long moment. And then, very solemnly, “I trust in your trust,” leaving me naked and breathless, bound and on my knees all over again. Unable.”

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24. “There was also the slimmest of chances that I might have been being a bit of a drama queen.”

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25. “He joined me on the bed, crawling across the covers like a tiger who’d been to Abercrombie and Fitch.”

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26. “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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27. “I knew how to make him angry and how to make him laugh, and I hoped I could make him happy.”

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28. “To gather up the dust of my heart and scatter it again on the winds of hope.”

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29. “These were the rosary beads of my submission. Though my only god was love.”

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30. “The witch smiled in a fashion that was hard to read, having all the character of affection but coming from a face designed for nothing but malice.”

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31. “Patrick had the attic room, which he’d decorated in shades of granite, wrought iron, and self-loathing.”

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32. “No one could have called him handsome, and the orange waders probably didn’t help – but when he smiled? Suddenly handsome didn’t seem important anymore – only the things happiness could do to a man’s face.”

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33. “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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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’ll be all right. Mythically inadvisable is my middle name. Names. Are my middle names. You get where I’m going with that.”

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37. “I’m conscious this could be rather burdensome to hear, but you remain the thing I have most chosen for myself. The thing that’s most exclusively mine. The one thing that brings me the deepest joy.”

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38. “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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39. “I have built a world-spanning financial empire from the ground up. I have bought and sold corporations that between them controlled the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people. I have dined with presidents and prime ministers. But nothing has made feel as powerful, or given me such pride, as your trust, your passion, and your surrender.”

— Alexis Hall

40. “You are my joy and my truth and my heart and my dreams. You are the best of me.”

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41. “It’s difficult, sometimes, for me to understand that I have the power to hurt someone. You see, it requires me to accept that somebody might like me in the first place.”

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42. “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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43. “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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44. “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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45. “In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.”

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46. “Tonight there was something different. Something both deeper and shallower than friendship. Familiarity, perhaps, the sudden realisation that we lived our sealed-up little lives in closeness to each other. That we had something to share and something to lose. Something to protect together.”

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47. “I really really needed that bastard to stop breaking my heart.”

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48. “He nuzzled under my chin like an overly enthusiastic, slightly amorous cat.”

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49. “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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50. “The nice thing about having a deeply weird, highly opinionated friend was that you never had to be the centre of attention if you didn’t want to be. The.”

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