Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

53. “Sometimes Paris felt his whole life was in slow motion with ominous music playing over it.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

56. “You’re more than a bonus, Lucien. You’re integral.”

— Alexis Hall

57. “This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I’m supposed to just walk through them.”

— Alexis Hall

58. “When my own happiness was a mystery to me, what hope did I have of being instrumental in someone else’s?”

— Alexis Hall

59. “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

60. “Alfie watched the wavering shadows from the street moving across the sky like an upside-down reflection. There was a little piece of fading moon tucked between the clouds like it was falling out of someone’s pocket.”

— Alexis Hall

61. “This woman did not look like my Nan. At all. It was like she’d been whittled down until she was nothing but skin and ferocity.”

— Alexis Hall

62. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

64. “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

65. “Children are stronger than you think. Besides, they haven’t had years and years of silly people filling their heads with silly ideas about what you’re meant to do or say or be.”

— Alexis Hall

66. “This semblance of a healthy lifestyle was going to take some getting used to.”

— Alexis Hall

67. “I kissed him. Or he kissed me. I couldn’t tell who’d started it. But it didn’t matter. All that mattered was that we were kissing. I missed you kisses and I want you kisses and we’re better together kisses and kisses that felt like sorry and kisses that felt like promises and kisses that could be tomorrow and the next day and the next.”

— Alexis Hall

68. “I’m thirty. I’m an old man. I can’t cope with this wild, thrill-seeking, field-crossing, tea-stealing lifestyle anymore.”

— Alexis Hall

69. “I would not be who I am without him. I have many regrets, but knowing Marleigh – even if that meant losing him – could never be one of them.”

— Alexis Hall

70. “The smart thing to do was quit while I was ahead, but I wasn’t really ahead and I’ve never been a quitter.”

— Alexis Hall

71. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

72. “There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.”

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73. “And verily the Lord beheld Adam, who He had fashioned in His image, and thought to Himself, ‘I had better give him some appendages for the separating of eggs,’ and thus He gave man two hands for that purpose, and lo, eggs were separated, and it was good.”

— Alexis Hall

74. “It’s its own universe somehow, this cycle of reaction, reaction, reaction, him and me, flogger and him, flogger and me, all connected. The best thing, though, is when the falls land... the impact travels all the way from his body to mine, through the leather, then the handle, through my arm and to my heart. We’re so... together.”

— Alexis Hall

75. “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

76. “Please.” Laurie’s voice is this distant swirl of panic and fear, cracking a bit. “Please don’t leave.”

— Alexis Hall

77. “Don’t try to tell me that time is a healer because time also kills people.”

— Alexis Hall

78. “I’d built my whole life around not wanting things I couldn’t have.”

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79. “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

80. “I shall tell you a liberating and terrifying truth, Mr. Wyndham... This cosmos which we inhabit is vast and indifferent. Every law, every teaching, and every tenet by which you might choose to live your life is a fiction that exits only so long as those around you agree upon it. In reality, you are entitled only to what you can take, duty bound to do only what you cannot avoid doing, and protected only by what power is in you to protect yourself.”

— Alexis Hall

81. “Father,” I heard him call out, “Katharine has brought a corpse to dinner.”

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82. “Love isn’t earned, Caspian. It’s given.”

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83. “Sometimes, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, for I am usually the one who needs to be told to stop thinking, it is enough to live in one moment, and let the rest take care of themselves.”

— Alexis Hall

84. “I don’t know exactly where he is, but I have an increasingly comprehensive list of places he isn’t.”

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85. “Okay, this was going to be way more fun if I’d accidentally brought mean Oliver with me.”

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86. “Who responds to a come-on with I beg your pardon?”

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87. “You’re not a loser, Toby. You’re just lost. And it’s okay to be lost.”

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88. “Three months ago Valentine would have said no because it was easy to be gracious when you were largely indifferent. When manner were just another mask. Three weeks ago, he would have said yes because his wounded pride demanded it. But what Valentine cared about, and what he didn’t, had been in the oddest state of flux lately.”

— Alexis Hall

89. “You really do own your illiteracy, don’t you?” “Yeah, I’m thinking about moving to America and running for public office.”

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90. “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

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

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92. “We are all the playground of angels and demons.”

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93. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

94. “Oh, you fuckguzzling shitweasel.”

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95. “As a general rule, I’m suspicious of unassuming men in their late fifties because they’re usually terrifying supernatural monsters.”

— Alexis Hall

96. “A moment of clarity within the haze of convalescence: perhaps in death, I may find myself at last.”

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97. “And what I’m saying is obviously I’d cope without you because wonderful as you are, I like to think this isn’t a codependent relationship. But I’d rather not have to. My life is more interesting with you in it, and you make me a worse person.”

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98. “Yeah. Turns out bisexuals ain’t like quinoa. You get ’em round my way too.”

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99. “He could probably save a few but not hundreds, and how would you decide who lives and who dies? It’s the only way, sweeting.” She slithered over and kissed my nose. “But it’s adorable that you care.” “I’m not sure that opposing mass murder counts as a cute little foible.”

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100. “I used to think I had imposter syndrome, but then I realized I was only pretending.”

— Alexis Hall