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

102. “But right now it was making me feel that I was living one of those dreams where you discover you’re in a play and everyone knows their part but you. Also, you might be naked.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

104. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

105. “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

106. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

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

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

— Alexis Hall

110. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

112. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

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

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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. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

119. “My anger, like every man I’d ever been with, didn’t seem inclined to stick around.”

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

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121. “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

122. “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

123. “Christopher folded his arms, but – although I admit I was biased – it was the kind of defiance you got from somebody who knows the other person has a point.”

— Alexis Hall

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

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

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

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131. “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

132. “It was a little strange, looking down at herself. She half expected to find she had changed in some way, become wild and magical, vined in Gracewood’s caresses like a forest nymph. But no. She was skin and bone, blood and sinew, just like always.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

134. “Somehow, despite my flat still looking like a bomb had thought about going off but got too depressed and just sat in the corner eating Pringles and crying, I was in an oddly good mood.”

— Alexis Hall

135. “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

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

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

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139. “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

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

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141. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

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

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144. “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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145. “The trees were different here, less friendly than those in the city. They gathered in unwelcoming mobs and glared angrily at the car as we passed. I suppose I could not blame them, for they were losing their homes to the roads and the bridges, and that must have been terrifying for beings that had persisted for centuries.”

— Alexis Hall

146. “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

147. “Clearly when you’re immortal, life is no longer too short to stuff a mushroom.”

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

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149. “It was not a betrayal of me for you to do what you needed to save yourself.”

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

— Alexis Hall