Something Spectacular Quotes

“Fiction makes sense; reality frequently doesn’t.”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular

“They’ve what?” asked Peggy”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular

“I have always felt fuck that is an underrated form of happiness. In fact”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular

“Sometimes living”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular

“Is that what you want?” “Is it not what everyone wants? To be remembered is to be immortal.”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular

“It was beautiful”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular

“If the only thing preventing every social occasion from descending inexorably into an orgy was the watchful eye of a trained orgy-preventer”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular

“Being in love was a private tyranny.”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular

“A heroine who stabs herself? Because a man has overreacted? If that were to be a general pattern for our sex”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular

“So everyone in the neighbourhood,” put in Bob, “can get excited that Hadwell Hall is let at last?” “I don’t think they’ll be that excited when they discover it’s been let by me. But,” Peggy offered, “I’ll do my best to insult a young lady at a country dance.”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular

“They raised a teasing eyebrow. “You seem very concerned about dukes.” “I am,” said Bob, greatly wearied. “There is something about me that feels as though it inexorably attracts them. I think it is my ordinary looks coupled with my striking eyes, alongside the fact I am mostly sensible yet given to impulsive attempts to control my own destiny.”
― Alexis Hall, Something Spectacular