Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.”

— Alexis Hall

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. “His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my mouth. A flood of secret pleasure.”

— Alexis Hall

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

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

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

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

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109. “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

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

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112. “That’s sort of what love is, I guess. A perpetual state of semideranged partiality.”

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

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114. “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.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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

118. “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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119. “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

120. “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

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

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122. “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

123. “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

124. “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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125. “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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126. “There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.”

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127. “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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128. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

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

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

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133. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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141. “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.”

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

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144. “Oh, you fuckguzzling shitweasel.”

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

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

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

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149. “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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150. “To reiterate, I’m not a serial killer.”

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