Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I am not sure love unshown is really love at all. What good does caring for a person do if you’re never there when they need you?”

— Alexis Hall

152. “A holy sisterhood devoted to protecting the world from evil spirits.” I perked up a bit. “You mean demon-fighting ninja nuns?” “Basically, yes.”

— Alexis Hall

153. “He spiralled away into the crowd in a swirl of glitter and shadow. One of the things I appreciated about Kauri was that he wasn’t afraid to be supernaturally fabulous.”

— Alexis Hall

154. “I’d make a pretty terrible Mr. Darcy.” “I don’t know.” Tariq gave him a playful look from beneath his eyelashes. “You’re rich, white, and awkward.”

— Alexis Hall

155. “There was a silence where you would very much hope there would not be a silence.”

— Alexis Hall

156. “We’ll go somewhere nice and photographable.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

159. “For the record, I sounded extremely dignified when I said this. And not at all pathetic.”

— Alexis Hall

160. “No, you can deal with. Don’t know is the most frightening thing of all.”

— Alexis Hall

161. “Make Max change his name instead,” I suggested. “I already thought of that, but he says Max Miller sounds like a serial killer. And I don’t want to be married to a serial killer.”

— Alexis Hall

162. “I will never forget him. But” – he smiled at her, fingers brushing the back of one of her gloves – “I am beginning to realise I did not die with him.”

— Alexis Hall

163. “I think you’ve drifted from ‘giving me a pep-talk’ into ‘advocating arson’.”

— Alexis Hall

164. “Valentine gave him a cool look, the tip of a brow inching upwards. “I sleep until a reasonable hour and am helped into my clothing by my valet.”

— Alexis Hall

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Alexis Hall

173. “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

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

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

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176. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

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179. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

180. “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

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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.”

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185. “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

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

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187. “I thought of Marius. Wild, wonderful, Byronic-fantasy Marius, who had somehow found something he wanted in the everyday quietness of me. Until he hadn’t.”

— Alexis Hall

188. “Maybe even wasn’t the point at all and you didn’t have to keep a constant record of who owed what to whom. Because most people, at least most people you wanted in our life, wouldn’t be out to use it against you anyway.”

— Alexis Hall

189. “I get that you have a weird professional duty to respect the wishes of people who want their kids to stay homophobic for as long as possible. But hopefully you get why that isn’t my problem. And if you ever try to make it Amelie’s problem again, I will lodge a formal complaint with the governors.” Miss Wooding de-flinched slightly. “As long as she doesn’t – ” “No ‘as long as she doesn’t.’ You’re not teaching my daughter to be ashamed of me.”

— Alexis Hall

190. “He was going to respect my wishes like some kind of arsehole.”

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191. “Except it was wholly different too: his fingers closing around hers in delicate possession, making her feel not fragile, precisely, but worthy of care. Even, perhaps, a little beautiful.”

— Alexis Hall

192. “In any case, I wasn’t prepared for the truth of you.”

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193. “I’m starting to think you should always push your luck. No, you can deal with. Don’t know is the most frightening thing of all.”

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194. “Okay, I know you can’t see it, but I’m holding up the fetishisation card.” “What does that card even look like?” “It looks like two adorable men in sweaters holding hands under a rainbow.” “I thought you wanted to hold hands with an adorable man under a rainbow.” “I do, but the fact you want it almost as much as I do is what makes it creepy.”

— Alexis Hall

195. “I quietly ignored the banana.”

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196. “I am very fond of the instructional poster on the subject of surviving a zombie apocalypse, but I feel it lacks emotional resonance.”

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197. “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time.”

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198. “I don’t know how to live. I never did.”

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199. “I can’t believe you’re giggling at my childhood trauma.”

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200. “What about you, old man? Have you ever sissied that walk?”

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