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Alexis Hall Quotes | Quotes said by Alexis Hall

  • Alexis Hall Quote #1

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


  • Alexis Hall Quote #2

    And when he kisses me it feels a bit like fear and tastes a bit like tears, but it’s as bright and sweet as sherbet, and I decide to call it joy.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #3

    Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #4

    Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn't believe in it. There was nothing but this.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #5

    He was wearing a gleaming cream-coloured linen suit, and a Panama hat. The weirdest thing about this was that he was not the most outlandish-looking person in the room by a long way. Not that Little Miss Dresses-Like-Bogart over here has a right to complain

  • Alexis Hall Quote #6

    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.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #7

    I am in costume,” I snapped. “I’m in costume as a really tired and pissed-off trauma doctor trying to get into a BDSM club in the vain hope of meeting a not-too-cack-handed stranger who’ll whip him into some semblance of satisfaction before he goes home again.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #8

    I closed my eyes, adding dark to dark, and the wanting unfurled like the sails of a phantom ship. This could be my universe. This nowhere world, circumscribed by skin and breath, where nothing mattered but two bodies moving together. The past and the future rendered irrelevant by the beauty of the now, the sum of the self transmuted into a moment. Oh, was there ever a more seductive definition of madness?

  • Alexis Hall Quote #9

    I couldn’t believe that lack of fear. It gave me vertigo, as though he was the edge of a cliff and I
    couldn’t bear the view.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #10

    I fended them off as best I could while trying to shield my eyes but, tragically, I'd left my flamethrower in my other suit.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #11

    I hated myself, and the part of me that was cowardly wished for a simple solution: an exchange of pain for forgiveness. But life didn’t work that way, and fucking up was forever.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #12

    I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don't know what they are until someone says them.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #13

    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.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #14

    I stared at him. At this too-thin, too-sincere boy. This person.
    Because I knew what he meant. I understood exactly. And I’d felt it too, that interior certainty. But over the years, I’d let all the fervour fade. I’d stopped believing in it, somehow. I’d let it become something I did, not something I was.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #15

    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.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #16

    I'd wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to hospitals, to depression, to wanting to die. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. This is not who I am.

    Except, of course, it was. It was all there was left to be.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #17

    I'm not saying you should marry wossisname. Just give yourself a chance with him.

    A chance to what?

    Be with someone again.

    I w-w-want to, I whispered. But what if it goes the same way? W-what if I'm unbeable with?

  • Alexis Hall Quote #18

    I'm not trying to upset you. I just think it's about time you moved on.

    I have moved on.

    Have you? Because it looks a lot like standing around to me.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #19

    In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #20

    It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year

  • Alexis Hall Quote #21

    It's something I imagine occasionally: waking up to discover civilisation has ended, leaving nothing but empty streets and silence. I don't actually want that to happen, but I ponder what I'd do, and how I'd stay alive. How it would feel to be really alone, and for my loneliness to be written on the landscape rather than merely upon me.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #22

    Kink crowds are the same the world over. The good ones are already taken, the hot ones only talk to each other, and everyone else is desperate.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #23

    Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you're naked and alone.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #24

    Nim handed me a mug of tea. I took a sip and it was just how I like it, strong and sweet. If you added psychotic and emotionally unavailable to that, it would also cover my taste in women.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

    Sometimes I though about killing myself. The idea of it circled my head, shining and lovely like a tinsel halo. How beautiful it would be if everything could just stop. If I could stop. If I didn't have to feel like this. Yes, I thought about it and thought about it, but I was too exhausted to do anything about it. That should have been funny, right?

  • Alexis Hall Quote #27

    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.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #28

    The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unravelling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman's weaving. And now every day was a grey stitch, laid down with an outpatient's patience, one following the next following the next, a story in lines, like a railway track to nowhere, telling absolutely nothing.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #29

    There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.

  • Alexis Hall Quote #30

    There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.

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