Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “To reiterate, I’m not a serial killer.”

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

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254. “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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255. “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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256. “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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257. “At least Bluebeard kept his dead wives neatly in one cupboard.”

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258. “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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259. “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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260. “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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261. “But my mind has always been its own enemy.”

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262. “Alfie watched the wavering shadows from the street moving across the sky like an upside-down reflection. There was a little piece of fading moon tucked between the clouds like it was falling out of someone’s pocket.”

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263. “This semblance of a healthy lifestyle was going to take some getting used to.”

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264. “I’m thirty. I’m an old man. I can’t cope with this wild, thrill-seeking, field-crossing, tea-stealing lifestyle anymore.”

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265. “When my own happiness was a mystery to me, what hope did I have of being instrumental in someone else’s?”

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

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

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268. “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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269. “I’d lost whatever capacity I ever had to relate to people in a romantic way.”

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

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

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272. “A spaniel that currently had its forepaws on his shoulders and was licking his nose lovingly, while staring deeply into his eyes. If I’d tried to do that, he’d have told me he wanted it to mean something.”

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273. “My priorities are determined by objective standards of urgency, not by sentiment.”

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274. “Everybody tell you that when you’re young, you think you’ll live forever. What they don’t tell you is that when you’re old, you think the same. It’s just that everything starts reminding you that it’s not true.”

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275. “He wanted to look at her like he wanted to breathe, like she was breath and he was drowning, and every moment of his not looking was a struggle towards the thing he most needed.”

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276. “His eyes met hers. Memory had not done their blue justice, nor the warmth that lay beneath their beauty, like some undersea garden. “He was the joy of my life.”

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277. “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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278. “I live in a dog biscuit factory with a feral person.”

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279. “We awkwarded for another long moment.”

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280. “Great. I was chained to a wall in the middle of an ancient vampire smug-off.”

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281. “It was a little strange, looking down at herself. She half expected to find she had changed in some way, become wild and magical, vined in Gracewood’s caresses like a forest nymph. But no. She was skin and bone, blood and sinew, just like always.”

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282. “Judy gave a won’t-stand-for-this-disparagement huff. ‘I beg your pardon. Being married to me is a wonderful experience. That’s why so many people have wanted to do it.”

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283. “And I was pretty sure this was how love felt: fuzzy and scary and confusing and light enough to whisk you away like a Tesco’s bag on the wind.”

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

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

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

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

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290. “I’d somehow lost the cornerstone of humanity: the ability to pretend, to counterfeit the basics of social interaction, to smile when you didn’t feel like smiling, to seem like you cared about other people when you lacked the capacity to care about yourself.”

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291. “I cannot meet him as a stranger. But he has never known me as myself.”

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292. “I was getting that I Am Legend feeling again, although the Legend part was especially ill-fitting. I Am Minor Folktale.”

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293. “I know the feeling. Last month my valet was sick and I could barely keep it together.”

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294. “A simple pun about a slightly obsolete public-sector job had turned into a debate about the long-term impacts of Thatcherism.”

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295. “I knew how to be a friend, a lover, a partner. I knew how to make someone feel cherished and seen and listened to – everything I had myself always so desperately wanted and been afraid I might never have because I was so used to being overlooked.”

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296. “I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be. Or how I find out.”

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297. “There was no way I was going.”

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298. “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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299. “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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300. “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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