Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I think what you’re underestimating here is how much better I can get and still be a complete disaster.”

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202. “I’m advocating taking a chance on a nice man who you’re clearly into and who’ll treat you well. And if you think that’s arson, then yay, arson.”

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203. “This isn’t about strength,” I told him. “It’s about who you’re choosing to make happy.”

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204. “All these still places in his soul that he disturbs for me. When.”

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205. “Elise’s enthusiasm for the whiteboard was on the charming edge of creepy. She’d told me once it liked to be involved, which I’d carefully blanked in case she decided to share any more of the private thoughts of my office furniture.”

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206. “You cannot begin to imagine the acts she has committed or the secrets she holds.” “Now you’re just trying to turn me on.” “Katharine!”

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207. “I’d gone without once before – it hadn’t been the worst thing in the world, and it would have probably passed into actively okay if the other guy had been just a touch less eager to plunge his manspear into my succulent dudehole.”

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208. “My heart, I think, turned tender in the untouched dark. I’m full of small, gathered hopes that, if I let them, will fly away from me, as fragile as dandelion seeds. The.”

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

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

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

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213. “I really needed to stop getting into bed with random supernatural entities. I also really needed to start picking metaphors that didn’t have a sexual undertone.”

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214. “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.”

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215. “I know you’re probably regretting our fake relationship pretty hard right now, but please don’t dump me again.”

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216. “He gave me the type of look you give someone when you’re mentally shifting them from the box that says “attractive” to the box that says “weird.”

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217. “There was power in it... Living in a world where you got to choose what mattered. And with time, and work, and perhaps a tiny bit of therapy, maybe she could have the too.”

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218. “Faith is supposed to be for everyone. Or everyone who wants it anyway. That’s kind of its whole deal. But.”

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219. “I kept them until all their colors were gone. Until they looked like they were made of paper. Until they started to make my room unpleasantly swampy-smelling. Until I had no choice but to let them go. Along with the man who had sent them to me.”

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220. “In some ways, Bridge’s flat was as messy as mine had been. It was just that in her case, it was a mess that said, ‘I love everything so much that I can’t possibly bear to be parted from it because my world is full of beautiful memories’ and not ‘I hate everything, and my pants live on the coffee table now.”

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221. “It’s not what you do, it’s what it means.”

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

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223. “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.”

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224. “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.”

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225. “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.”

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226. “Safernoc Hall was deep in the forest. The roads here were subdued, and almost fearful. They lurked in long shadows and cowered under trees. The gate up to the house was more confident, even forbidding. It wore its moss like a robe and its years like a crown. I parked the car in front of the main house and approached the doors. They were opened by a reserved gentleman who harboured secret regrets.”

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227. “I think I must be exceptionally drunk. Inebriation is like the sea – even the bed is not the bottom, and I am floating gently in some bio-luminescent trench among the anglerfish and the vampire squid. But I like it down here. I’ve never seen well by sunlight and I prefer the company of eyeless things.”

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228. “The thought of not being in love with Oliver wasn’t even vomit-inducing. It was just... unapproachable from any angle.”

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229. “And also I, y’know, liked, y’know, seeing, y’know, him. And stuff.”

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230. “I was slightly depressed that I lived the kind of life where you needed a sewer kit, but the only thing more depressing than having a sewer kit is needing a sewer kit and not having one.”

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231. “Are you attempting to convey information, or are you trying to recreate a popular Abbott and Costello routine?” “What are you talking about?” “I am sorry. I thought you may have wanted me to reply ‘I don’t know’ so that you could respond with ‘No, I don’t know’s a werewolf.’” “Elise, you can rest easy in the knowledge that I would never want you to do that.” “That, Miss Kane, is because you have no soul.”

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232. “God, you’re sexy when you’re being an idiot.”

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233. “Isn’t that what being twenty is all about?” “Being an idiot?” “No.” She grinned, looking all impish and twinkly. “I meant, falling for unsuitable people. Breaking hearts and having your heart broken. Living the stories that are worth telling.”

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234. “Oliver shook both their hands with the disarming formality of a man who was professionally formal and disarming.”

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235. “Where he could be my Oliver again.”

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236. “I want to give him everything, and the things I can’t give, I want him to take.”

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237. “Eat it, motherbitches.”

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238. “Though I’ve honestly been hoping there comes a point in your life when you stop worrying about what your parents think.”

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239. “Okay.” I drew in a calming breath. “Let me try to explain. Most of the people who aren’t you understand that capitalism is exploitative and climate change is a problem and that choices we make can support things that are bad or unjust. But we survive by a precarious strategy of not thinking about it. And reminding us of that makes us sad, and we don’t like being sad, so we get angry.”

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240. “This is a thing he can do. He can make himself into a gift. And what it makes me feel is humble. The.”

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241. “What the hell are you implying? Yes, I’ve slept around but I’m not Alexander Fleming’s petri dish.”

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

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243. “Stop being frivolous, Lucien, and hold my damn hand.”

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244. “That the world expects weakness from women is an inequity that we can sometimes twist to our favour.”

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245. “So, lemme get this right. We’re gonna make a go of it. You and me? Togevver? Even though I’m orange and you’re mental?”

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246. “This isn’t submission.” “Isn’t it?” “No.” He looks up at me, tired as well, but he’s never looked more beautiful to me than in this moment, strong and open and unafraid like when he surrenders his body. “It’s love.”

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247. “Hell: making the best things suck since the dawn of creation.”

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248. “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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249. “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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250. “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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