Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2025 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. “Okay, I’ll take Pretty Fly For a White Guy and you take Tall, Dark, and Deliquescing.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

54. “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

55. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

56. “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

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

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58. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

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62. “It sort of becomes who you are, like.” “People aren’t patchwork quilts. Pieces of pain all stitched together into the shape of something human.”

— Alexis Hall

63. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

65. “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

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

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67. “Yes, but you’ll slowly discover that you’re not as different as you initially assumed, and then he’ll surprise you with how thoughtful he is, and then you’ll come to his rescue in an unexpected moment of need, and you’ll fall madly in love with each other and live happily ever after.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

69. “When all you’ve got is a ravening vampire army, every problem starts to look like a lack of wanton slaughter.”

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

— Alexis Hall

71. “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.”

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72. “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

73. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

75. “Sometimes I think that’s all love is. Understanding, smoothing away your strangeness. Making you part of the world, not separate from it.”

— Alexis Hall

76. “Grand Theft Darjeeling.”

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77. “Stay out too late, drink too much, cause the people who care about me needless anxiety.”

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78. “After twenty-eight years I’d reached the point that I only ever argued with Mum to see how I’d lose.”

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79. “It is true. You should never let anyone tell you it is wrong to be how you are.”

— Alexis Hall

80. “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

81. “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

82. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

83. “It was a cocktail of three of Oliver’s voices: stern poured over a base of secretly amused with a dash of contrite.”

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84. “Alex’s club was called Cadwallader’s and it was exactly like you’d expect a club called Cadwallader’s to be. Lurking discreetly behind a door just off St James’s Street, it was made entirely of oak, leather, and men who’d been occupying the same armchair since 1922.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

86. “You don’t really fall in love with a house. You fall in love with the life you could have in it.”

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

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

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89. “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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90. “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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91. “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

92. “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

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

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

— Alexis Hall

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

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96. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

98. “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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99. “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

100. “One day, I wanted somebody to look at me the way Rhys looked at hypothetical free chips. Although to be fair, Oliver sometimes did.”

— Alexis Hall