Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “To family,” Niko says. “And viva Puerto Rico libre.”

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452. “Her eyes are bright and teasing and warm, warm forever-and-ever brown, and August doesn’t know how she could possibly do anything but whatever this girl says.”

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453. “Oh, you have a choice, Mum,” Catherine says. “You’ve always had a choice. Perhaps today you’ll make the right one.”

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454. “Come on,” Myla says. “Joy Division? Everyone who’s ever been within sniffing distance of a clove cigarette knows Joy Division.”

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455. “If the girl’s going to end up with a dude who’s a monster,” Chloe says, “it needs to be – ” “Phantom,” Georgia finishes for her as they head outside, because she’s heard it five hundred thousand times. “Monster on the outside, but on the inside, he cares about her career goals!” Chloe says. “Call me old-fashioned, but a man’s place is in the basement, preparing vocal exercises for his more talented wife.”

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456. “Oh my God. I’m in love with a monster turducken.”

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457. “But way worse people with way bigger problems than me get elected all the time.”

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458. “Are they too drunk to communicate in English? He wonders distantly if Henry knows any Spanish.”

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459. “The man Henry remembers is both superhuman and heartbreakingly flesh and blood, a man who encompassed Henry’s entire childhood and charmed the world but was also simply a man.”

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460. “When I caught the stomach flu in the fifth grade, my mother sent a note to school written on the back of a holiday memo from Vice President Biden. Sorry, sir – we were in a rush, and it was the only paper she had on hand.”

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461. “He feels like he’s stepped outside of himself and returned to find everything slightly rearranged.”

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462. “He smiles as he reaches for a frying pan, because he knows it’s exactly the kind of insane risk he can’t resist.”

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463. “How do you do all the good you can do?”

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464. “Okay,” he says. “I’m into making history.”

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465. “Which is how he ends up in his J. Crew best on a Saturday at the Greenwich Polo Club, wondering what the hell he’s gotten himself into. The woman in front of him is wearing a hat with an entire taxidermied pigeon on it. High school lacrosse did not prepare him for this kind of sporting event.”

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466. “Jane es la primera persona que la ha hecho sentir alguna vez como John Cusack e Ione Skye a la vez.”

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467. “Oh, Alex thinks. “Oh,” Alex says.”

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468. “Hey, Coffee Girl.”

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469. “August sits on the edge of an air mattress in Brooklyn and tries to imagine how it would feel if she didn’t have any of those memories to understand what made her who she is. If she woke up one day and just was and didn’t know why.”

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470. “Can you please sit down?” Zahra says after twenty minutes of watching him twitch around the cabin. “You’re giving my ulcer an ulcer.”

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471. “August takes note after note and finds it almost funny – that all the fighting only conspired to make Jane gentle. Fearsome and flirty and full of bad jokes, an incorrigible sweet tooth and a steel-toe boot as a last resort. That, August is learning, is Jane.”

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472. “Shara’s cheeks going pinker and pinker with quiet anger the more Chloe recited without glancing at the page.”

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473. “Henry is one talented bastard. A man of many hidden gifts, Alex muses half hysterically. A true prodigy. God save the queen.”

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474. “Her eyes have this way of swallowing up the grimy fluorescent light of the train and transforming it into something new. Right now, when she looks at August: stars. The goddamn Milky Way.”

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475. “She lived because she wanted to. There’s nothing she can’t do.”

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476. “Yep. And for the record, making it was one of the most depressing moments of my career.”

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477. “It sounds like you did your best.”

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478. “From the moment I arrived at Willow Grove, I was confident I would spend the next 4 years of my high school career counting the days until I could escape this place, which has the spiritual aura of a Mountain Dew bottle filled with dip spit in the tour bus cup holder of a Christian Rock Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band.”

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479. “I wanted to see the world but still have one thing that was mine.”

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480. “Bad thing – Mom, I saw the new art in the hall on the second floor, and I need to know why you allowed a George W. Bush terrier painting in our home.”

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481. “Kind of,” she says. And, “Pull my hair.” For a few ringing seconds, August imagines herself melting onto the floor of the train like the ghosts of a million spilled subway slushies and dropped ice cream cones. Completely under control.”

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482. “Every time something terrible happens to you from then on, it doesn’t just stop at the bottom – it goes all the way down.”

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483. “It was never a crush, if she’s being honest, not since she started planning her mornings around a girl she didn’t even know.”

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484. “Shara wirft Dinge nicht weg, weil sie ihr nichts bedeuten. Sie wirft sie weg, weil sie zu viel bedeuten.”

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485. “Alex lies awake that night, drunk on Shiner and way too many campfire marshmallows, and he stares at whorls in the wood panels of the top bunk and thinks about coming of age out here. He remembers when he was a kid, freckly and unafraid, when the world seemed like it was blissfully endless but everything still made perfect sense. He used to leave his clothes in a pile on the pier and dive headfirst into the lake. Everything was in its right place.”

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486. “I don’t think I’m allowed back on Long Island after I dropped that jar of spiders on the LIRR,” Niko says.”

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487. “Your pants are in the window by the TV,” says a voice, much too clear and much too loud for the hangover bog. August looks up, and there’s Lucie, glitter lingering around her eyes, glowering into the cabinets. “You said, ‘They need to get some air.”

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488. “Jane tilts her head to look at her. She’s got this ability to move between pretty and handsome from moment to moment, a subtle difference in the way she holds her chin or the set of her mouth. Right now, she’s the prettiest girl August has ever seen.”

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489. “New York takes from her, sometimes. But she takes too. She takes its muggy air in fistfuls, and she packs it into the cracks in her heart.”

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490. “Alex paces the solarium and listens to Henry talk, stories about a man with Henry’s same sandy hair and strong, straight nose, someone Alex has met in shadows that pass through the way Henry speaks and moves and laughs.”

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491. “I think it’s amazing,” Nora says. “Sworn enemies forced to make peace to settle tensions between their countries? There’s something totally Shakespearean about it.”

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492. “He looks transformed in the lamplight, like a god of debauchery, painted gold with his hair all mussed up and his eyes heavy-lidded.”

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493. “I learned that survival is heavy on so many of us. And on a personal level, I realized I’d gotten so used to that weight, I stopped noticing how much of myself I’d dedicated to carrying it.”

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494. “He notices David Beckham in a well-tailored suit – once again, how had he convinced himself he was straight?”

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495. “August Landry does not trust people, but she trusts fried chicken.”

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496. “He tells his too-fast brain: Don’t miss it this time. He’s too important.”

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497. “Instead, he is in a prison of his own creation, sworn to babysit these turkeys until the pardoning ceremony, and is just now realizing his deep-seated fear of large birds.”

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498. “Or she’s starting a new life with a man named Raoul. Or she left to get a nose job and is recuperating in a subterranean labyrinth beneath an opera house in France.”

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499. “She kept running because she never quite learned what home was supposed to feel like. That, especially, August can understand.”

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500. “Jane laughs, which is rocketing straight up August’s list of favorite sounds in the universe. She’s gonna trap it in a shell like a sea witch. It’s fine.”

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