Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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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202. “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.”

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

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204. “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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205. “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”?”

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

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207. “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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208. “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.”

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209. “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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210. “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.”

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211. “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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212. “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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213. “I’d lost whatever capacity I ever had to relate to people in a romantic way.”

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

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216. “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.”

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

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218. “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.”

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

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

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221. “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.”

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

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223. “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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224. “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.”

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

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226. “Also they have big penises.”

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227. “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.”

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228. “You do know you’re one of the hot ones, right? You could have any dom in this room if you looked marginally more approachable than an underfed piranha having a bad day.”

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229. “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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230. “Oh, why did I care? Who was here to judge us, except me?”

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231. “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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232. “I waited with my coffee-themed hot-water-beverage while she went to the counter to order.”

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233. “His eyes kept promising me things I wasn’t sure I didn’t want.”

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

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235. “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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236. “But my mind has always been its own enemy.”

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237. “It didn’t stop her from pretending, though. Imagining for a moment she could have a life like Harry’s. Where your world was whatever you made of it and whoever you let into it and you were allowed to be happy with that.”

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

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239. “Thank you,” I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride imaginable. I had spoken to strangers.”

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240. “If he kissed Fen in London, would he still taste of the sea?”

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241. “When I am with you, I feel about as far from anything that has ever hurt me as it is possible to be.”

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242. “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.”

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243. “At least Bluebeard kept his dead wives neatly in one cupboard.”

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244. “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.”

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245. “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.”

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

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247. “This is why I should never leave the house. Or talk to humans. Especially not humans I wanted to like me.”

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248. “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.”

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249. “Now I read him poetry. Just so he has some words to take with him, and my voice to keep him company in the dark.”

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250. “Whatever the internal mechanism that moderated the human capacity for joy, mine had long been broken beyond repair. And I knew this was a poor substitute, a base shadow cast on the cave wall, a reflection in a tarnished mirror of ordinary things like happiness, love, and hope. But there were moments, fleeting moments, lost in the responses of my body to his, when it was almost enough. And, God, I wanted, I wanted. These crumbs of bliss.”

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