Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Where he could be my Oliver again.”

— Alexis Hall

152. “And I was pretty sure this was how love felt: fuzzy and scary and confusing and light enough to whisk you away like a Tesco’s bag on the wind.”

— Alexis Hall

153. “Kink crowds are the same the world over. The good ones are already taken, the hot ones only talk to each other, and everyone else is desperate.”

— Alexis Hall

154. “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

155. “We were going to have a pleasant conversation over sherry if it killed us both.”

— Alexis Hall

156. “Thank you,” was all I could think to say. But it wasn’t just a dominance game. I meant it. Thank you for the pain. Thank you for letting it mean so much to you. Thank you for believing I’m beautiful. Thank you for making me feel so powerful. Thank you for loving me. Thank you. Thank you.”

— Alexis Hall

157. “I live in a dog biscuit factory with a feral person.”

— Alexis Hall

158. “As long as the Beetle Drive is successful, you may go to whatever bars you please and wear whatever mammalian appendages you like.”

— Alexis Hall

159. “We awkwarded for another long moment.”

— Alexis Hall

160. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

161. “I don’t really get on with my mother. It’s one of those classic generational things. She’s a blood-drenched embodiment of primal hunger who keeps taking over my body and I’ve got a body I don’t want taken over. I suppose that’s what you call an impasse.”

— Alexis Hall

162. “Great. I was chained to a wall in the middle of an ancient vampire smug-off.”

— Alexis Hall

163. “I yanked the bolt out of the poor bugger’s chest, and he snapped upright like Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction. “Well, that was annoying. Stupid bloody professional vampire hunters.”

— Alexis Hall

164. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

166. “Judy gave a won’t-stand-for-this-disparagement huff. ‘I beg your pardon. Being married to me is a wonderful experience. That’s why so many people have wanted to do it.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

168. “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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169. “When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge, they learned what was good, and what was evil, and how to tell the difference. I believe we know when we do wrong. We feel it. In our hearts, our souls, our conscience. And nothing I have ever learned or known or felt has taught me to believe that love is wrong. So no, my flower, it’s not wrong.”

— Alexis Hall

170. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

172. “We were going to end up as newspaper headlines: Pensioner and Homosexual Found Dead in River – Coincidence, Tragedy, or Satanic Ritual Gone Wrong?”

— Alexis Hall

173. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

175. “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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176. “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

177. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

179. “If there was ever evidence that Oliver was in a bad way, it was that not only was he still asleep with I woke up, but he was still asleep when I got bored of lying in bed – which I thought was basically impossible.”

— Alexis Hall

180. “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

181. “Oliver had an actually quite pleasant-looking pile of leaves. I mean, I wouldn’t personally have wanted it for dinner, but I guess it served him right for having ethics.”

— Alexis Hall

182. “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

183. “I watched the streets with wonder. Finished a bottle of water. I was exhausted in a distant physical way, but I wasn’t tired. An odd distinction, but it absolutely made sense right then.”

— Alexis Hall

184. “I tried to go back to sleep, but knowing somebody had been watching took all the fun out of being unconscious.”

— Alexis Hall

185. “I’d lost whatever capacity I ever had to relate to people in a romantic way.”

— Alexis Hall

186. “I had no idea it would be like this. That having someone on their knees for you would make you so vulnerable.”

— Alexis Hall

187. “But that was the strange comfort of long-standing friendship – ribbons of familiarity and old love woven through your life.”

— Alexis Hall

188. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

189. “I don’t know how you acquire acquired tastes.”

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190. “Yes, I was a faery-blooded, thirty-something PI with trust issues and a drinking problem, and she was a bloodthirsty undead nun with a pudding fixation, but I honestly thought we were in with a chance.”

— Alexis Hall

191. “I tried to remind myself that journalists were like tyrannosauruses. Their vision was based on movement.”

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192. “Grand Theft Darjeeling.”

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193. “And that’s what death is really, isn’t it? A lot of things you’ll never know.”

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194. “Life with Mum and Judy had been this bubble I’d kept other people away from, partly because I was worried they wouldn’t understand, but also because, I guess, in some odd way, I wanted it to stay mine. This private space where Mum would always be cooking – or saying – something awful, and she and Judy would always be far too into whatever hobby or book or TV show had caught their attention this week, and I would always be welcome and safe and loved.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

196. “Once again, I tried to safe-word to Oliver with my eyes.”

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197. “That was always the problem: Whatever you did, or did not do, whether it was just or the reverse, no matter how necessary it felt, life moved mercilessly forward.”

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198. “Compromises are usually just a solution nobody wants.” “That’s how it works in my family. We sit down and come to a civilized agreement we all hate.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall