{"author":"Alexis Hall","author_id":"Alexis+Hall","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["m-m","smile"],"id":12659,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"},{"text":"Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you're naked and alone.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["alone","bloody","life","naked","rough"],"id":20335,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["emotionally-unavailable","lesbian","love","psychotic","strong","sweet","tea","women"],"id":36469,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"},{"text":"When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had ever really thought like that. Self-recrimination inevitably followed.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["bipolar","depression","fog","self-recrimination"],"id":71405,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"},{"text":"It's not what you do, it's what it means.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["words-of-wisdom"],"id":81011,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["bipolar","depression","madman","madness","tapestry"],"id":95721,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["attention","barley","intense","pleasure","secret","sweet"],"id":109825,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["small-business","vampires"],"id":127086,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["touchpaper","words"],"id":129958,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"},{"text":"There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["m-m","risk"],"id":133264,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}