Pansies Quotes

“She wouldn’t understand, and he couldn’t explain. How bad it felt to be a shock. To be an idea people had to get used to. To be a moment of hesitation. A flinch when someone touched you. A wariness in their eyes.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“I’m still me. We’re all built of pieces really, the things that have happened to us and the people we love, and change is as inevitable as the tide, smoothing us into sea glass. It’s nothing to be feared. I have Alfie to thank for this as well. He found me, when I most needed to be found, and helped me find myself again.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“Alfie sighed. “Let me guess, it’s a bad thing now. Because of Tumblr or something.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“My heart, I think, turned tender in the untouched dark. I’m full of small, gathered hopes that, if I let them, will fly away from me, as fragile as dandelion seeds. The”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“it’s harder, sometimes, to live with choices that aren’t yours”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“London was a hodgepodge of centuries, banging elbows like drunks at a bar”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“If he kissed Fen in London, would he still taste of the sea?”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“Alfie watched the wavering shadows from the street moving across the sky like an upside-down reflection. There was a little piece of fading moon tucked between the clouds like it was falling out of someone's pocket.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“I’ll have you know, some boys like their milkshake extra thick.” “I didn’t mean that—” he flailed frantically “—it was more your personality like.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“I’m not. I just had no idea you liked making cakes.” “And I had no idea you liked sucking cock.” Fen spread his arms in a peace-making gesture. “And you’re both very talented. So there’s no need to start pissing against lampposts.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“But a quick inventory of available fucks confirmed that Alfie was fresh out.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“And so, half an hour later, Alfie’s dad; his brother, Billy; Billy’s mate Joe, who was a plumber; and Joe’s apprentice, Harry, were somehow crammed into Fen’s tiny bathroom like that joke about how many elephants you could get in the fridge.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“It sort of becomes who you are, like.” “People aren’t patchwork quilts. Pieces of pain all stitched together into the shape of something human.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“Kissing like Alfie had always imagined it was supposed to be. Movie-star-magic-silver-screen-fireworks-in-the-sky kissing. Endless and restless, like the sea beating in the distance. Like listening to a shell, except it was everything and everywhere, the taste”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“And Dad. But what would he say? How would he stop me, how would he help me, now he can’t sneak his love in next to yours as if I wouldn’t notice, and say “your mother thinks” or “your mother wants”?”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“We’re all built of pieces really, the things that have happened to us and the people we love, and change is as inevitable as the tide, smoothing us into sea glass. It’s nothing to be feared.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“All in all, Alfie was pretty sure Les Misérables hadn’t become part of his soul.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“He’d had no idea there was this much kissing in the world. That you could kiss, and kiss, and kiss, and not run out of ways to kiss. Like a Fibonacci sequence of touching, increasing always in complexity, but never breaking the boundary of their two joined mouths.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“And Billy used to put his hand under the cold tap and sneak into my room and grab my feet, and go, ‘Preciousss.’ Bloody hilarious. Dad gave him what for in the end.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“I know it doesn’t mean anything, like whether you fuck or suck or whatever, but at some point you’ve got to decide what’s special. Because otherwise nothing is.” A smile, like a bright, crooked constellation in the shifting dark.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies

“What, you mean because you can’t drive off the board to get a blowjob from a trucker?” “I’ve never had a blowjob from a trucker.”
― Alexis Hall, Pansies