Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “This isn’t about strength,” I told him. “It’s about who you’re choosing to make happy.”

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

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

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204. “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.”

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

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

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

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208. “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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209. “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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210. “He came to life beneath its harsh, silver-flashing eye, his body twisting to the music of the shutter. He was shameless in his skin. Ridiculous. And beautiful.”

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

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212. “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.”

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213. “Once we had been friends, once we had been lovers. And now we were just two people who knew each other too well, who had – through carelessness, not malice – hurt each other too much.”

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

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

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

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

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219. “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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220. “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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221. “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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222. “I step forward like a deer stepping in front of another deer in the mistaken belief it’s immune to being hit by cars.”

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

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

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

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227. “Eat it, motherbitches.”

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “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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231. “What the hell are you implying? Yes, I’ve slept around but I’m not Alexander Fleming’s petri dish.”

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

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233. “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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234. “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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235. “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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236. “Hell: making the best things suck since the dawn of creation.”

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237. “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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238. “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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239. “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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240. “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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241. “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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242. “If,” he began, “we must speak so vulgarly of trade, consider this. I will acquire no dowry, some convenient acres for whatever son you bear me, a wife who despises me and talks like the heroine of an inordinately bad novel. And you will be a duchess, one of the most powerful women in the land. Is yours not the better bargain? Surely the prospect must hold some appeal for you.”

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243. “You really do own your illiteracy, don’t you?” “Yeah, I’m thinking about moving to America and running for public office.”

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244. “We are all the playground of angels and demons.”

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245. “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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246. “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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247. “At least Bluebeard kept his dead wives neatly in one cupboard.”

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248. “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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249. “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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250. “In the past, words shimmer around me on silver threads and I pluck them like summer peaches. In the past, the universe is a glitterball I hold in the palm of my hand. I am the axis of the world.”

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