Top 300 Alexis Hall Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.”

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302. “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.”

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303. “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.”

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

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

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306. “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.”

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

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308. “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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309. “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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310. “Oh, why did I care? Who was here to judge us, except me?”

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311. “We expanded the data set.”

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

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313. “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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314. “You still make me happy, Lucien. You are still everything I want, and a lot of things I couldn’t have imagined wanting.”

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315. “He glanced at me, smiling now. “Hot and kind and slightly mysterious. How did I get so lucky?” “Is that how you see me?” “Everyone’s mysterious before you know them.” “But w-when you know me, I won’t be mysterious anymore.” “Yeah, you’ll be you, and that’ll be better.”

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316. “Caspian could never be a stranger to me. Even when he feared he was a stranger to himself.”

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

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318. “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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319. “We’ve been talking for less than five minutes and I already want to stick his pencil up his nose.”

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320. “I had only questions, uncertainties, and shame. A kiss that was not a kiss from a man who was not a man.”

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321. “It was nothing more than the instinct of sociability, but it made me realise how long it had been since I’d been smiled at by a stranger. How long since I’d had someone to smile back to.”

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322. “I was naturally charming. I was a quarter Irish and a quarter French.”

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323. “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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324. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “Punching him would be more satisfying, but ignoring him would be more effective. Decisions, decisions.”

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

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

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330. “Bitter experience has taught me that you don’t engage with intellectually superior wankers who make long speeches about moral relativism.”

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331. “I am not sure love unshown is really love at all. What good does caring for a person do if you’re never there when they need you?”

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332. “Il problema dell’attribuire il giusto valore a qualcosa era il dolore che ne seguiva la perdita.”

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

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335. “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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