Alexis Hall Quotes

“In the past, I walk between green lawns, surrounded by golden stone.
In the past, I am brilliant and I am happy and my every tomorrow is madness.
In the past, words shimmer around me on silver threads and I pluck them like summer peaches.
In the past, the universe is a glitterball I hold in the palm of my hand. I am the axis of the world.
In the past, I am soaring, and falling, and breaking, and lost.”
― Alexis Hall, Glitterland

“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, Glitterland

“Here lies Kate Kane, killed in a foreplay accident. Beloved daughter. Sorely missed.”
― Alexis Hall, Iron & Velvet

“Knowing the lesson was one fucking thing. Learning it another.”
― Alexis Hall, Prosperity

“Surely a public servant cannot be so cynical!"
"Have you met the public?”
― alexis hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter