Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Yo soy muy, muy gay.”

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2. “Every woman a universe.”

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3. “You’re a dumbass. Love you.”

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4. “Sometimes you just jump and hope it’s not a cliff.”

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5. “But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable.”

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6. “I am the First Son of the United States, and I’m bisexual. History will remember us.”

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7. “Bisexuality is truly a rich and complex tapestry.”

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8. “History Huh? I bet we could make some...”

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9. “I want my life back, I want- I want you and I want to go back and I can’t want those things at the same time, and everything’s too much, and I- I don’t want to feel like this anymore.”

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10. “I am very, very gay.”

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11. “That is not a proportional response.”

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12. “Most things are awful most of the time, but you’re good.”

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13. “If you don’t stop, I’m gonna call Taylor Swift and tell her you changed your mind and want to go to her Fourth of July party after all.” “That is not a proportional response.” Later.”

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14. “What abou me?” Henry says. “Christ, Alex. The whole bloody time.”

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15. “Henry’s cursive. Dear Thisbe, I wish there weren’t a wall. Love, Pyramus He fumbles his phone out so fast he almost drops it on the floor and smashes it again. The search tells him Pyramus and Thisbe were lovers in a Greek myth, children of rival families, forbidden to be together. Their only way to speak to each other was through a thin crack in the wall built between them.”

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16. “Come back to me when you’re done being flung through the firmament, you lost Pleiad.”

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17. “Christ, you are as thick as it gets.”

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18. “I can love you and want you and still not want that life.”

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19. “He wants to set himself on fire, but he can’t afford for anyone to see him burn.”

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20. “I’ve been gay as a maypole since the day I came out of Mum, Philip.”

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21. “He came from a long, long line of princes, but never before had there been a prince quite like him: born with his heart on the outside of his body.”

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22. “Keep fighting, keep making history, keep looking after one another. Affectionately yrs. Have a Shiner on me.”

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23. “He rolls onto his side and listens, trails the back of his hand across the pillow next to him and imagines Henry lying opposite in his own bed, two parentheses enclosing 3,700 miles.”

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24. “Comatose in California is my favorite Lana Del Rey album.”

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25. “You are”, he says, “the absolute worst idea I’ve ever had.”

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26. “He has the personality of a cabbage.”

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27. “The entertainment for the night is a British indie rocker who looks like a root vegetable.”

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28. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart for having saved me. I was drowning and you threw yourself into the water without hesitation, without a backward look.”

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29. “I just mean to say, you know, Philip is the heir and I’m the spare, and if that nervy bastard has a heart attack at thirty-five and I’ve got malaria, whither the spare?”

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30. “Take anything you want and know you deserve to have it.”

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31. “Henry looks Philip square in the face and says, “I’ve been gay as a maypole since the day I came out of Mum, Philip.” In the silence that follows, Alex has to bite down very hard on his tongue to suppress the urge to laugh hysterically.”

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32. “If Alex’s head is a storm, Henry is the place lightning hits ground.”

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33. “When have I ever, since the first instant I touched you, pretended to be anything less than in love with you?”

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34. “He called Henry the North Star once. That wasn’t bright enough.”

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35. “An third, some saucy tart once tried to impugn my virtue against an oil painting of him, and in the halls of memory, some things demand context.”

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36. “Jealousy is a funny thing. We spend so much of high school consumed by it, hating that another person has something we don’t, wishing we could taste what it’s like to be them.”

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37. “That’s the choice. I love him, for all that, because of all that. I love him on purpose.”

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38. “Alex?” Henry’s voice sounds scratchy and bewildered across the line. “Have you really rung me at three o’clock in the morning to make me listen to a turkey?” “Yes, obviously,” Alex says. He glances at Cornbread and cringes. “Jesus Christ, it’s like they can see into your soul. Cornbread knows my sins, Henry. Cornbread knows what I have done, and he is here to make me atone.”

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39. “Please stay gorgeous and strong and unbelievable.”

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40. “Still waters, deep dicking.”

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41. “God, I want to fight everyone who’s ever hurt you, but it was me too, wasn’t it? All that time.”

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42. “Nobody needs to know how hard he’s kicking underwater.”

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43. “How dare Henry come into Alex’s house looking like the goddamn James Bond offspring that he is, drink red wine with the prime minister, and act like he didn’t slip Alex the tongue and ghost him for a month.”

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44. “Well, he gets told he’s great a lot. He just doesn’t often get told he’s good enough.”

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45. “For what it’s worth, you’ve never disappointed me once since I’ve met you.”

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46. “I want your body and the rest of you too.”

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47. “History, huh? Bet we could make some.” – Alex Claremont-Diaz.”

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48. “The phrase ‘see attached bibliography’ is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.”

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49. “I don’t give a damn what.”

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50. “I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire.”

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