Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “I live off my wife. It’s extremely modern and feminist of me.”

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

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56. “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.”

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

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

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59. “Besides, I’m not with you for your cooling or your ability to wash up. I’m with you because you make me feel better than anyone ever has. And I often wish I could be more like you.”

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60. “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

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

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62. “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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63. “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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64. “The terrible powerlessness of being unable to do anything except wait for mercy you couldn’t earn and didn’t deserve.”

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65. “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.”

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66. “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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67. “The conversation hadn’t so much died on us as been taken out back and shot in the head. And I knew I should be playing paramedic but I couldn’t quite bring myself to or work out how.”

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68. “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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69. “I remembered that I hated school trips. They involved putting a bunch of people who only knew each other in a very specific context into a very different context and expecting everything to work. And it never did.”

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

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

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72. “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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73. “It was a rhetorical aubergine.”

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

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75. “Behave yourself, Lucien.” Well, that wasn’t sexy. Nope. Definitely not. Not at all. A sweet little shiver whooshed the length of my spine.”

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

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

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78. “I will never forget him. But” – he smiled at her, fingers brushing the back of one of her gloves – “I am beginning to realise I did not die with him.”

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79. “Sometimes it is the most vital thing in the world to be selfish... 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 recognized for who we are.”

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

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

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82. “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.”

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83. “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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84. “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.”

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85. “Grand Theft Darjeeling.”

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

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87. “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.”

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88. “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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89. “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.”

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

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91. “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.”

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92. “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.”

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93. “I am very fond of the instructional poster on the subject of surviving a zombie apocalypse, but I feel it lacks emotional resonance.”

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

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95. “I’d gone without once before – it hadn’t been the worst thing in the world, and it would have probably passed into actively okay if the other guy had been just a touch less eager to plunge his manspear into my succulent dudehole.”

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

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97. “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.”

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98. “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.”

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

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100. “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.”

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