Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I’d lost whatever capacity I ever had to relate to people in a romantic way.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

257. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

258. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

259. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

260. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

262. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

263. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

265. “We awkwarded for another long moment.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

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270. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

275. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

277. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

279. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

280. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

281. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

282. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

283. “There was no way I was going.”

— Alexis Hall

284. “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.”

— Alexis Hall

285. “Love isn’t earned, Caspian. It’s given.”

— Alexis Hall

286. “I don’t know exactly where he is, but I have an increasingly comprehensive list of places he isn’t.”

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287. “Who responds to a come-on with I beg your pardon?”

— Alexis Hall

288. “Three months ago Valentine would have said no because it was easy to be gracious when you were largely indifferent. When manner were just another mask. Three weeks ago, he would have said yes because his wounded pride demanded it. But what Valentine cared about, and what he didn’t, had been in the oddest state of flux lately.”

— Alexis Hall

289. “There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.”

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290. “And verily the Lord beheld Adam, who He had fashioned in His image, and thought to Himself, ‘I had better give him some appendages for the separating of eggs,’ and thus He gave man two hands for that purpose, and lo, eggs were separated, and it was good.”

— Alexis Hall

291. “It’s its own universe somehow, this cycle of reaction, reaction, reaction, him and me, flogger and him, flogger and me, all connected. The best thing, though, is when the falls land... the impact travels all the way from his body to mine, through the leather, then the handle, through my arm and to my heart. We’re so... together.”

— Alexis Hall

292. “Please.” Laurie’s voice is this distant swirl of panic and fear, cracking a bit. “Please don’t leave.”

— Alexis Hall

293. “I’d built my whole life around not wanting things I couldn’t have.”

— Alexis Hall

294. “I shall tell you a liberating and terrifying truth, Mr. Wyndham... This cosmos which we inhabit is vast and indifferent. Every law, every teaching, and every tenet by which you might choose to live your life is a fiction that exits only so long as those around you agree upon it. In reality, you are entitled only to what you can take, duty bound to do only what you cannot avoid doing, and protected only by what power is in you to protect yourself.”

— Alexis Hall

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

— Alexis Hall

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

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

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299. “We expanded the data set.”

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300. “I never forget a face, young man, and I don’t like yours.”

— Alexis Hall