Alexis Hall > Quotes

“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.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“The world teaches men to listen only to what they want to hear and women to tell it to them.”
― Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

“My working theory was that getting a dessert from a vegan restaurant was like having sex with someone less attractive you-they knew it was a tough sell, so they tried harder.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“We were going to have a pleasant conversation over sherry if it killed us both.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“But I suppose it comes down to whether you think dominance and submission are about acts or about people.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“This was Caspian Hart. Not speaking to you for three months, then glaring at you coldly was practically his love language.”
― Alexis Hall, How to Belong with a Billionaire

“I have to rescue my girlfriend from a killer shit faery, and I’ve got no way to carry my magic sword.”
― Alexis Hall, Iron & Velvet

“Oh...I cant. I cant dance."
"What, not at all? Not even when you hear ABBA?"
"I do my very best not to hear ABBA.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“in my experience, everybody hurts everybody. The trick is picking the kind of hurt you want to live with.”
― Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter

“Perhaps a stranger would look at Toby and see little more than a skinny postadolescent with a shockingly bad haircut. But he was my boyfriend, my dom, my fragile prince, and he was nothing less than beautiful to me.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“I find him in pets looking at cat treats. And when he spots me, he gets this expression on his face like I caught him with porn.”
― Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened

“Jonathan's face is absolutely thunderous. It's like he wants to fire everyone in the room but can't because they're his family and that's not how it works.”
― Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened

“I knew him better than my own soul. He may have been my soul, for what little I am worth without him.”
― Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

“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.”
― Alexis Hall, Glitterland

“Bitter experience has taught me that you don't engage with intellectually superior wankers who make long speeches about moral relativism.”
― Alexis Hall, Shadows & Dreams

“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, For Real

“I don’t see what use we can be to others if we must deny our own most fundamental selves. We all have the right to be recognised for who we are.”
― Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

“It was barely evening, but I crawled into bed. Depression-stupefied, weary and hopeless, I should have slept.
But I was strangely restless. Slightly tearful. And troubled by wayward thoughts.
Depression was thoughtless, tearless, an animal’s pain.
Some hours later, I realised.
I wasn’t depressed. I was sad.”
― Alexis Hall, Glitterland

“That was sex for you -- it only got really good when you didn't care how undignified the whole business was.”
― Alexis Hall, Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake

“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.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be. Or how I find out.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“I felt him move and turned my head to deflect his kiss so that it landed on the side of my jaw instead of my mouth. It shimmered there briefly like some iridescent, impossible butterfly.”
― Alexis Hall, Glitterland

“Please don't laugh, Miss Carroll. If you're laughing, you must be smiling, and I don't think I can climb back up to see it."
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"My smile," she called out, "would not be worth such exertion."
"You are quite wrong."
"Even so, it is hardly an uncommon commodity."
"That does not lessen its value.”
― Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

“bring me my coffee and unleash the boys.”
― Alexis Hall, How to Bang a Billionaire

“Tonight there was something different. Something both deeper and shallower than friendship. Familiarity, perhaps, the sudden realisation that we lived our sealed-up little lives in closeness to each other. That we had something to share and something to lose. Something to protect together.”
― Alexis Hall, Waiting for the Flood

“I tried to remind myself that journalists were like tyrannosauruses. Their vision was based on movement.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“Alfie sighed. “Let me guess, it’s a bad thing now. Because of Tumblr or something.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“I'd been about to say something...something...about human naivety...and the fact we had no fundamental right to happiness...or something...but his hand moved over my thigh, fingers brushing my cock through my trousers, and my breath hitched and my thoughts scattered, and I did not mourn them. He pushed me back onto the kitchen floor, crawling over me like some mountain cat stalking its prey.”
― Alexis Hall, Glitterland

“I’d never been a big fan of deserving. It always seemed like something other people decided for you.”
― Alexis Hall, How to Bang a Billionaire

“I put my head in my hands. "Oh, I don't know anymore. I don't know where love ends and habit begins."

"Who does?”
― Alexis Hall, Waiting for the Flood