“ I had no idea it would be like this. That having someone on their knees for you would make you so vulnerable. Alexis Hall
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for. Alexis Hall
“ 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
“ 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 M… Alexis Hall
“ I knew how to be a friend, a lover, a partner. I knew how to make someone feel cherished and seen and listened to -- everything I had myself always so desperately wanted and been afraid I might never… Alexis Hall
“ 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
“ 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 fo… Alexis Hall
“ 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… Alexis Hall
“ 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 mattere… Alexis Hall
“ My cock actually sort of staggers like a punch-drunk boxer who doesn’t know when to stay down. Alexis Hall
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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 fe… Alexis Hall
“ 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
