Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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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252. “The terrible powerlessness of being unable to do anything except wait for mercy you couldn’t earn and didn’t deserve.”

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253. “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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254. “I’d never been a big fan of deserving. It always seemed like something other people decided for you.”

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

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256. “Avevo sempre trovato qualcosa di confortante nelle azioni ripetitive. Mi fornivano un’ancora di salvezza quando tutte le certezze si facevano incerte. Mi sentivo saturo di stanchezza, schiacciato dalla mia stessa pelle e allo stesso tempo evanescente, come se le mie dita avessero potuto dissolversi in nebbia se avessi smesso di concentrarmi sul fatto di essere vivo.”

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257. “There was no way I was going.”

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

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259. “He was the human equivalent of an offer from Oxford: difficult to get, impossible to turn down, and guaranteed to make you feel as if you’d only been chosen because of an administrative error.”

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260. “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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261. “I pressed a little harder and made a shallow cut just beneath her collarbone. She gave a surprised yelp that turned into a low moan.”

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262. “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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263. “His thumb traced gently across my knuckles like we had all the time in the world and nothing mattered more than this conversation right now.”

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264. “And so, half an hour later, Alfie’s dad; his brother, Billy; Billy’s mate Joe, who was a plumber; and Joe’s apprentice, Harry, were somehow crammed into Fen’s tiny bathroom like that joke about how many elephants you could get in the fridge.”

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265. “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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266. “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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267. “Hell: making the best things suck since the dawn of creation.”

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268. “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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269. “Besides, I’m not with you for your cooling or your ability to wash up. I’m with you because you make me feel better than anyone ever has. And I often wish I could be more like you.”

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270. “Clearly when you’re immortal, life is no longer too short to stuff a mushroom.”

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

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273. “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.”

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

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275. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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282. “He kept making me feel things in ruined places.”

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283. “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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284. “Pain was simply an inevitability of living, and I had to learn how to trust him with his own, as I trusted him with mine.”

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285. “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.”

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286. “Yeah, and I wanted to help him with them, like he helped me.” “That is his choice, though. Some people, they do not want to be helped.”

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287. “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.”

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288. “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.”

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289. “I could stand to hear the adventures of Sister Julian, Pudding Nun.”

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

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291. “I was in my head, and that was the worst place for anyone to be, especially me.”

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292. “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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293. “It was not a betrayal of me for you to do what you needed to save yourself.”

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294. “Sometimes, you can half believe you’ve been hurt so much you’ve basically been vaccinated. Rendered immune. And then someone says something like that to you.”

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295. “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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296. “About the Author Alexis Hall was born in 1764 and sustains his unnatural existence by the usual methods of drinking blood, avoiding sunlight, and brooding. He writes fiction from deep within a crumbling mansion with one wrist pressed to his forehead.”

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297. “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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298. “What we want and what we need and what we think is best aren’t always the same.”

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299. “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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300. “As far as I’m concerned, depravity applies only to acts committed without consent or without care.”

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