For Real Quotes

“I want to give him everything, and the things I can't give, I want him to take.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“I don’t see stars, but I see the spaces between them, and all there is . . . is him.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“That’s sort of what love is, I guess. A perpetual state of semideranged partiality.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“This isn’t submission.” “Isn’t it?” “No.” He looks up at me, tired as well, but he’s never looked more beautiful to me than in this moment, strong and open and unafraid like when he surrenders his body. “It’s love.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“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, For Real

“I had no idea it would be like this. That having someone on their knees for you would make you so vulnerable.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“He was gorgeous yesterday, kneeling and burnished and kind of a fantasy. And he’s still gorgeous this morning, rumpled and tired and real.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“It's not what you do, it's what it means.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousness knew how to smile.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“My cock actually sort of staggers like a punch-drunk boxer who doesn’t know when to stay down.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“A soft pulse of desire went through me, not for sex or pain or humiliation or some other release, but for this, this quiet closeness. Someone to hold in the dark.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“But that was the strange comfort of long-standing friendship—ribbons of familiarity and old love woven through your life.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“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, For Real

“Then we’ll be lost together, and we’ll figure it out together. Whatever that means. Whatever it takes. I’m with you, and I’ll be with you for as long as you want me.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“The terrible powerlessness of being unable to do anything except wait for mercy you couldn't earn and didn't deserve.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“Perhaps a stranger would look at Toby and see little more than a skinny postadolescent with a shockingly bad haircut. But he was my boyfriend, my dom, my fragile prince, and he was nothing less than beautiful to me.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“Oh...I cant. I cant dance."
"What, not at all? Not even when you hear ABBA?"
"I do my very best not to hear ABBA.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“But I suppose it comes down to whether you think dominance and submission are about acts or about people.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“Now I read him poetry. Just so he has some words to take with him, and my voice to keep him company in the dark.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“You do know you’re one of the hot ones, right? You could have any dom in this room if you looked marginally more approachable than an underfed piranha having a bad day.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“What do I do?"
There was nothing but love in him as he told me, "You suffer for me.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“Okay." He popped everything into the fridge. "Now I just need to grab some things from upstairs."
"For the pie?"
"For you. Give me like...five minutes. And--" he flashed his toothiest grin "--take you clothes off."
I froze. "When you said you wanted lemon meringue pie and filthy sex, I didn't think you meant together."
"That's what you get for underestimating me.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“Though I’ve honestly been hoping there comes a point in your life when you stop worrying about what your parents think.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be. Or how I find out.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“I just don’t fucking know, okay? I’ve never known. My entire life is just me pretending—not very well—that I have a clue what I’m doing. But I don’t. I just don’t. I don’t have . . . like . . . a dream or a goal, and I don’t know how to get one, or what’s wrong with me that I don’t.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“In my experience, one of the less well-advertised secrets of group sex was how often it came down to logistics.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“And verily the Lord beheld Adam, who He had fashioned in His image, and thought to Himself, 'I had better give him some appendages for the separating of eggs,' and thus He gave man two hands for that purpose, and lo, eggs were separated, and it was good.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real