Husband Material Quotes

“I am yours, more truly than I have ever been anyone’s. Because when I’m with you, I’m me. Not someone I think I should be. And I’ll be with you, however you want, for as long as you’ll have me.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“You still make me happy, Lucien. You are still everything I want, and a lot of things I couldn’t have imagined wanting.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“And what I'm saying is obviously I'd cope without you because wonderful as you are, I like to think this isn't a codependent relationship. But I'd rather not have to. My life is more interesting with you in it, and you make me a worse person.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Grand Theft Darjeeling.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“One day, I was going to have someone fuck me over and then not play the you’ve-got-every-right-to-be-angry card to guilt me out of being angry.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“And that's what death is really, isn't it? A lot of things you'll never know.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Besides, I'm not with you for your cooking or your ability to wash up. I'm with you because you make me feel better than anyone ever has. And I often wish I could be more like you.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“I remembered that I hated school trips. They involved putting a bunch of people who only knew each other in a very specific context into a very different context and expecting everything to work. And it never did.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“It was a cocktail of three of Oliver's voices: stern poured over a base of secretly amused with a dash of contrite.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Oliver was using his you're-being-mean-to-me-and-I-secretly-like-it voice, which was just different enough from his you're-being-mean-to-me-and-I-very-much-don't-like-it voice that we'd avoided some major misunderstandings.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Photograph’ does not have its moments,” I yelled. “No Ed Sheeran song has moments. I can’t believe I’m marrying someone who thought ‘Photograph’ had moments.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Let’s be clear,” I told him, trying to match his air of casual mateyness. “I’m glad you’re happy. You and JoJo seem like you’ll be great together. But we are never going to be friends because you will always be the guy who sold me out for the price of a Toyota Supra.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“When did this become a thing with us?” “Since we went to this restaurant,” I told him, “and you looked at a lemon posset like you wanted to have sex with it. I have to feed you the dessert so it’s a threesome, not voyeurism.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“If I'd been in a poetic mood, I'd have said the rain made it feel like the sky was doing our crying for us. But this was Britain. Rain was just another fact of life. Like taxes. Or the other thing.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“One day, I wanted somebody to look at me the way Rhys looked at hypothetical free chips. Although to be fair, Oliver sometimes did.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“In some ways, Bridge's flat was as messy as mine had been. It was just that in her case, it was a mess that said, 'I love everything so much that I can't possibly bear to be parted from it because my world is full of beautiful memories' and not 'I hate everything, and my pants live on the coffee table now.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“The thought of not being in love with Oliver wasn't even vomit-inducing. It was just...unapproachable from any angle.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“I gave him an unhelpfully angled eye roll. 'Oliver. It's not your job to make being with you convenient for me. Just like it's not my job to make being with me convenient for you. Which is good because if it was my job, I'd have been fucking fired ages ago.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“But you should know that I am yours, more truly than I have ever been anyone’s. Because when I’m with you, I’m me. Not someone I think I should be. And I’ll be with you, however you want, for as long as you’ll have me.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“But right now it was making me feel that I was living one of those dreams where you discover you’re in a play and everyone knows their part but you. Also, you might be naked.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Okay, architecture boy”—”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Let me think. How about…no? How about no way in fucking hell what are you even talking about you piece of absolute shit.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Lucien sees me with all my flaws and makes me feel loved anyway. Something, by the way, that neither of you have ever managed.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“There was a jar of gherkins—because fridges spontaneously generate gherkins even when nobody buys them—except I didn’t think materialising at Oliver’s bedside saying, Hello, darling, I know your father’s died and you’re having a lot of complicated emotions, but I’ve brought you a wally was quite the supportive and/or romantic gesture he needed quite then.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“His thumb traced gently across my knuckles like we had all the time in the world and nothing mattered more than this conversation right now.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“There was a silence where you would very much hope there would not be a silence.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Fuck. No, I didn’t mean that. I mean, like, I have, you know, issues because of history shit.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“You still make me happy, Lucien. You are still everything I want and a lot of things I couldn't have imagined wanting--'
'Thanks'
'In a good way. We don't have to do this. We can move at whatever pace you like. But you should know that I am yours, more truly than I have ever been anyone's. Because when I'm with you, I'm me. Not someone I think I should be. And I'll be with you, however you want, for as long as you'll have me.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Oliver shook both their hands with the disarming formality of a man who was professionally formal and disarming.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material

“Okay, this was going to be way more fun if I'd accidentally brought mean Oliver with me.”
― Alexis Hall, Husband Material