Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

103. “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

104. “And Dad. But what would he say? How would he stop me, how would he help me, now he can’t sneak his love in next to yours as if I wouldn’t notice, and say “your mother thinks” or “your mother wants”?”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

106. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

108. “In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.”

— Alexis Hall

109. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

110. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

111. “Oh, you fuckguzzling shitweasel.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

113. “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

114. “I’ll be all right. Mythically inadvisable is my middle name. Names. Are my middle names. You get where I’m going with that.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

119. “Also they have big penises.”

— Alexis Hall

120. “Everybody tells 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.”

— Alexis Hall

121. “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

122. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

124. “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

125. “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

126. “I’d never been a big fan of deserving. It always seemed like something other people decided for you.”

— Alexis Hall

127. “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

128. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

130. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

135. “It was nothing more than the instinct of sociability, but it made me realise how long it had been since I’d been smiled at by a stranger. How long since I’d had someone to smile back to.”

— Alexis Hall

136. “I was naturally charming. I was a quarter Irish and a quarter French.”

— Alexis Hall

137. “I knew him better than my own soul. He may have been my soul, for what little I am worth without him.”

— Alexis Hall

138. “Caspian could never be a stranger to me. Even when he feared he was a stranger to himself.”

— Alexis Hall

139. “If I was lucky, we’d be able to pass the time until the ceremony just saying each other’s names back and forth in tones of increasing concern.”

— Alexis Hall

140. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

141. “I had only questions, uncertainties, and shame. A kiss that was not a kiss from a man who was not a man.”

— Alexis Hall

142. “Sometimes, you can half believe you’ve been hurt so much you’ve basically been vaccinated. Rendered immune. And then someone says something like that to you.”

— Alexis Hall

143. “About the Author Alexis Hall was born in 1764 and sustains his unnatural existence by the usual methods of drinking blood, avoiding sunlight, and brooding. He writes fiction from deep within a crumbling mansion with one wrist pressed to his forehead.”

— Alexis Hall

144. “What we want and what we need and what we think is best aren’t always the same.”

— Alexis Hall

145. “As far as I’m concerned, depravity applies only to acts committed without consent or without care.”

— Alexis Hall

146. “Kissing like Alfie had always imagined it was supposed to be. Movie-star-magic-silver-screen-fireworks-in-the-sky kissing. Endless and restless, like the sea beating in the distance. Like listening to a shell, except it was everything and everywhere, the taste.”

— Alexis Hall

147. “Il problema dell’attribuire il giusto valore a qualcosa era il dolore che ne seguiva la perdita.”

— Alexis Hall

148. “Punching him would be more satisfying, but ignoring him would be more effective. Decisions, decisions.”

— Alexis Hall

149. “But Oliver had the sort of perfect symmetry that eighteenth-century philosophers would have taken as evidence for the existence of God.”

— Alexis Hall

150. “Bitter experience has taught me that you don’t engage with intellectually superior wankers who make long speeches about moral relativism.”

— Alexis Hall