Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Lauren had serious – and honestly, correct – opinions about the way society had gone from judging women for failing to live up to unrealistic beauty standards to judging them for both failing and succeeding.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

53. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

55. “I reckon they’d taste of stars.”

— Alexis Hall

56. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

57. “It turned out I wasn’t angry or invincible at all. Just far too young for a game I hadn’t understood we were playing.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

60. “Avevo sempre trovato qualcosa di confortante nelle azioni ripetitive. Mi fornivano un’ancora di salvezza quando tutte le certezze si facevano incerte. Mi sentivo saturo di stanchezza, schiacciato dalla mia stessa pelle e allo stesso tempo evanescente, come se le mie dita avessero potuto dissolversi in nebbia se avessi smesso di concentrarmi sul fatto di essere vivo.”

— Alexis Hall

61. “It was a rhetorical aubergine.”

— Alexis Hall

62. “Oh, Captain.” Ms. Haas extended her arms, allowing a small swarm of spiders to drag a pair of long gloves up her arms. “What is the point of doing battle against dark forces if you can’t look your best while you’re doing it?”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

64. “I see you have wilfully misinterpreted me for comic effect. I am quite entertained.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

66. “The trees were different here, less friendly than those in the city. They gathered in unwelcoming mobs and glared angrily at the car as we passed. I suppose I could not blame them, for they were losing their homes to the roads and the bridges, and that must have been terrifying for beings that had persisted for centuries.”

— Alexis Hall

67. “The future is terrifying because it’s full of stuff, not because it’s empty.”

— Alexis Hall

68. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

69. “Clearly when you’re immortal, life is no longer too short to stuff a mushroom.”

— Alexis Hall

70. “Alfie sighed. “Let me guess, it’s a bad thing now. Because of Tumblr or something.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

72. “Awkward as this is, I like to feel that ‘slightly more friends than you can fit around your table’ is exactly the right number of friends to have.”

— Alexis Hall

73. “It’s not the sort of thing you talk about, okay? It was for us. And it was everything.”

— Alexis Hall

74. “If he kissed Fen in London, would he still taste of the sea?”

— Alexis Hall

75. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

77. “Whatever magnet drew us once was broken now. It had left me simply spinning, a compass without a lodestone.”

— Alexis Hall

78. “I couldn’t afford to tangle myself up in other people’s expectations and inevitable disappointment. It would be awful. An ever-expanding cycle of everyone feeling bad, like a bulimic serpent eating its own tail.”

— Alexis Hall

79. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

80. “Grand Theft Darjeeling.”

— Alexis Hall

81. “In war we are all either meat or murderers.”

— Alexis Hall

82. “Perhaps a stranger would look at Toby and see little more than a skinny postadolescent with a shockingly bad haircut. But he was my boyfriend, my dom, my fragile prince, and he was nothing less than beautiful to me.”

— Alexis Hall

83. “I was the climber of a sheer cliff, dragging myself on bleeding hands towards a summit that I’d never reach and sometimes didn’t want to reach. The things I cared about were the hooks I’d driven into the rock face. Depression snapped them, one by one, one by one. My only certainty was the fall.”

— Alexis Hall

84. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

85. “I was a cagey, grumpy, paranoid mess who would find a way to ruin even the most basic human interaction.”

— Alexis Hall

86. “If I’d been in a poetic mood, I’d have said the rain made it feel like the sky was doing our crying for us. But this was Britain. Rain was just another fact of life. Like taxes. Or the other thing.”

— Alexis Hall

87. “Darling that’s not an emergency. That’s our life now.”

— Alexis Hall

88. “That is where you’re wrong. Shame is for people with self-respect.”

— Alexis Hall

89. “I never interrupt people when they’re speaking because I know only too well how annoying it is. But with my every brattish interjection, the dimples deepened at the corner of his lips. And I was half-drunk on his smiling and the power of saying things that made him smile.”

— Alexis Hall

90. “And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousness knew how to smile.”

— Alexis Hall

91. “The game went on for about two hours. People hit balls to places. Occasionally they would go other places, and people would cheer. This is my experience of all sport ever.”

— Alexis Hall

92. “It felt perilously close to being worth something.”

— Alexis Hall

93. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

94. “I don’t see what use we can be to others if we must deny our own most fundamental selves. We all have the right to be recognised for who we are.”

— Alexis Hall

95. “I crawl fully onto the bed and straddle him. It’s not exactly something I’ve had much practice at. In my head, it’s all graceful and natural and I sort of swing myself over like a cowboy into the saddle. But, basically, I kind of scrabble and then plop but, hey, it gets the job done.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

97. “Steady on. I didn’t sign up for Fifty Shades of Gay.”

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98. “Truth be told. I’d never been the best at self-care. Self-recrimination. I had down. Self-loathing. I could do in my sleep and often did.”

— Alexis Hall

99. “Because what else could I say? That the moments when it nearly worked made all the times it didn’t feel just a little worse.”

— Alexis Hall

100. “It’s hard for me to understand why anyone wouldn’t want you in their life.”

— Alexis Hall