Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “It’s my responsibility to communicate to you what I’m feeling and what’s too much, and it’s your responsibility to be receptive to that communication. I don’t necessarily believe the best way for that to happen is me saying ’banoffee pie.”

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

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254. “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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255. “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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256. “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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257. “What the hell are you implying? Yes, I’ve slept around but I’m not Alexander Fleming’s petri dish.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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266. “And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousness knew how to smile.”

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267. “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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268. “I never interrupt people when they’re speaking because I know only too well how annoying it is. But with my every brattish interjection, the dimples deepened at the corner of his lips. And I was half-drunk on his smiling and the power of saying things that made him smile.”

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269. “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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270. “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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271. “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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272. “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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273. “One day, I wanted somebody to look at me the way Rhys looked at hypothetical free chips. Although to be fair, Oliver sometimes did.”

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

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

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

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

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280. “Love doesn’t just go away when it becomes inconvenient.”

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281. “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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282. “London was a hodgepodge of centuries, banging elbows like drunks at a bar.”

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283. “I remembered that I hated school trips. They involved putting a bunch of people who only knew each other in a very specific context into a very different context and expecting everything to work. And it never did.”

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284. “His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my mouth. A flood of secret pleasure.”

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285. “I see you have wilfully misinterpreted me for comic effect. I am quite entertained.”

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286. “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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287. “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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288. “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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289. “What we want and what we need and what we think is best aren’t always the same.”

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

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

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293. “Kissing like Alfie had always imagined it was supposed to be. Movie-star-magic-silver-screen-fireworks-in-the-sky kissing. Endless and restless, like the sea beating in the distance. Like listening to a shell, except it was everything and everywhere, the taste.”

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294. “I mean, I kind of feel alphas are the romance equivalent of an impulse buy. It looks great in the shop but then you get home and it’s like where am I going to put this thing? It doesn’t go with my furnishings and it keeps trying to kiss me punishingly.”

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295. “I was a cagey, grumpy, paranoid mess who would find a way to ruin even the most basic human interaction.”

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296. “If you were mine, I’d want to make you feel safe and I’d make sure you never forget the extraordinary man you are.”

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297. “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.”

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298. “I was the climber of a sheer cliff, dragging myself on bleeding hands towards a summit that I’d never reach and sometimes didn’t want to reach. The things I cared about were the hooks I’d driven into the rock face. Depression snapped them, one by one, one by one. My only certainty was the fall.”

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299. “Please don’t leave me again,” he whispered. “I think I could learn to live without you, but I have no wish to.”

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300. “I’m kind of a lube fiend. And I definitely don’t think I’m a sufficiently high-level sodomite for him to cruise in on saliva and a fair wind.”

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