Alexis Hall

Quotes

• “The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unravelling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman's weaving. And ...”
• “I was the climber of a sheer cliff, dragging myself on bleeding hands towards a summit that I'd never reach and sometime...”
• “I never interrupt people when they're speaking because I know only too well how annoying it is. But with my every bratti...”
• “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 depres...”
• “He was wearing a gleaming cream-coloured linen suit, and a Panama hat. The weirdest thing about this was that he was not...”
• “I knew how to be a friend, a lover, a partner. I knew how to make someone feel cherished and seen and listened to -- eve...”
• “There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a gr...”
• “Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling...”
• “When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I ha...”
• “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 emo...”
• “I hated myself, and the part of me that was cowardly wished for a simple solution: an exchange of pain for forgiveness. ...”
• “I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but...”
• “You do know you’re one of the hot ones, right? You could have any dom in this room if you looked marginally more approac...”
• “Thank you," I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride i...”
• “Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him li...”
• “I thought of Marius. Wild, wonderful, Byronic-fantasy Marius, who had somehow found something he wanted in the everyday ...”
• “His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my m...”
• “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...”
• “It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down...”
• “Kink crowds are the same the world over. The good ones are already taken, the hot ones only talk to each other, and ever...”
• “Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you're naked a...”
• “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...”
• “In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.”
• “This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them.”
• “The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.”
• “My dominant (no pun intended) discourse seems to be needy as fuck.”
• “I'm not trying to upset you. I just think it's about time you move”
• “Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient.”
• “There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.”
• “We are all the playground of angels and demons.”
• “It's not what you do, it's what it means.”