Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Love doesn’t just go away when it becomes inconvenient.”

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102. “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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103. “London was a hodgepodge of centuries, banging elbows like drunks at a bar.”

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

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

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

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107. “I mean, I kind of feel alphas are the romance equivalent of an impulse buy. It looks great in the shop but then you get home and it’s like where am I going to put this thing? It doesn’t go with my furnishings and it keeps trying to kiss me punishingly.”

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108. “You know that bit in the Bible when they’re all like, ‘Yo Peter, do you know this Jesus bloke?’ and he’s like, ‘Hell, no.’ It was like that, but even worse.” “My word.”

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109. “A spaniel that currently had its forepaws on his shoulders and was licking his nose lovingly, while staring deeply into his eyes. If I’d tried to do that, he’d have told me he wanted it to mean something.”

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110. “My priorities are determined by objective standards of urgency, not by sentiment.”

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111. “Damn the world. The world told you that you had to live the life it shaped for you, and you defied it. The world told me that I had to be as my father was, and I defied it, or am trying to. We can make our own world, Viola, with our own rules.”

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112. “Everybody tell you that when you’re young, you think you’ll live forever. What they don’t tell you is that when you’re old, you think the same. It’s just that everything starts reminding you that it’s not true.”

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113. “By the time this was over, I was going to have a near-fatal buildup of unused sarcasm.”

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114. “He wanted to look at her like he wanted to breathe, like she was breath and he was drowning, and every moment of his not looking was a struggle towards the thing he most needed.”

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115. “His name tasted bright and sharp on my tongue. Sugar and cinnamon.”

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116. “His eyes met hers. Memory had not done their blue justice, nor the warmth that lay beneath their beauty, like some undersea garden. “He was the joy of my life.”

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117. “It’s not what you do, it’s what it means.”

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118. “You still make me happy, Lucien. You are still everything I want, and a lot of things I couldn’t have imagined wanting.”

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119. “He glanced at me, smiling now. “Hot and kind and slightly mysterious. How did I get so lucky?” “Is that how you see me?” “Everyone’s mysterious before you know them.” “But w-when you know me, I won’t be mysterious anymore.” “Yeah, you’ll be you, and that’ll be better.”

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120. “There was power in it... Living in a world where you got to choose what mattered. And with time, and work, and perhaps a tiny bit of therapy, maybe she could have the too.”

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121. “Faith is supposed to be for everyone. Or everyone who wants it anyway. That’s kind of its whole deal. But.”

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122. “We expanded the data set.”

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123. “I kept them until all their colors were gone. Until they looked like they were made of paper. Until they started to make my room unpleasantly swampy-smelling. Until I had no choice but to let them go. Along with the man who had sent them to me.”

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124. “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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125. “In some ways, Bridge’s flat was as messy as mine had been. It was just that in her case, it was a mess that said, ‘I love everything so much that I can’t possibly bear to be parted from it because my world is full of beautiful memories’ and not ‘I hate everything, and my pants live on the coffee table now.”

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126. “I never forget a face, young man, and I don’t like yours.”

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127. “That I did not know how to see you,′ he told her, ’is not your lie.”

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

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

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130. “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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131. “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.”

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132. “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.”

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133. “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.”

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

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135. “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.”

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

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137. “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.”

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138. “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.”

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

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140. “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.”

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141. “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.”

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

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

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

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146. “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.”

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

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

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149. “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.”

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

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