Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Okay, but, uh, what if they escape? I’ve seen Jurassic Park. Did you know birds are directly descended from raptors? That’s a scientific fact. Raptors in my bedroom, Henry. And you want me to go to sleep like they’re not gonna bust out of their enclosures and take over the island the minute I close my eyes? Okay. Maybe your white ass.”

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452. “Here they are. Two sets of sneakers on a scrap of metal. Two girls in the middle of a hurricane, tearing down the line. She’s looking up at Jane, and Jane’s looking down at her, and August feels her everywhere, even the places she’s not touching, pressed close as the world roars on.”

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453. “Please don’t be stupid. No part of any of this will ever be uncomplicated. Anyway, you should be a writer. You are a writer.”

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454. “Sometimes August thinks Jane looks like a watercolor painting, fluid and lovely, darker in places, bleeding through the page.”

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455. “So, I convinced myself that, because the statistical likelihood of something happening in real life exactly the way I imagined it was so low, if I imagined the worst possible things in vivid detail, I could mathematically reduce the odds of them happening. I convinced myself that my brain had power over the probability projections of the universe. I’d lie awake at night thinking about all the worst stuff that could happen like it was my job, and I don’t know if I ever really broke the habit.”

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456. “Get a clarifying shampoo and suck it up, Kylo Ren.”

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457. “It’s like I died... I died, except I have to feel it. And on top of that, I have to feel everything else I’ve ever felt all over again. I have to get the bad news again every day, I have to deal with the choices I made, and I can’t fix it. I can’t even run from it. It’s miserable, August.”

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458. “Well, I did go to uni. It just wasn’t necessarily the reading that did it.”

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459. “Hey, Coffee Girl.”

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460. “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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461. “Isaiah ignores them and continues to yell at August’s tits. “Jane! The party’s not over yet! You should come!”

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462. “So I can offer you all of me, in whatever way you’ll have me, and I can offer you the chance of a life.”

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463. “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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464. “August, we’re adults. Just say you got your back blown out.”

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465. “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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466. “It lasts only a minute or two, but it feels like a year lost in Jane’s hair and Jane’s lips and Jane’s past, Jane’s hands fisting in her curls, Jane’s thigh warm and steady under her, Jane for hours, Jane for days. It pulls like an undertow, and the case is up on the surface, and August is trying to stay there too.”

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

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468. “Shara doesn’t throw things away because they mean nothing to her. She throws things away because they mean too much.”

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469. “Er,” Henry says, adding to the list of vowel sounds he has to show for himself. It is, unfortunately, also sexy. After all these weeks, the bar is low.”

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470. “She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough.”

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471. “All frogs do is eat bugs that we hate and mind their business. They don’t deserve all that. They’re literally just vibing.”

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472. “His dad wasn’t wrong about how ugly things would get with Richards leading the ticket. Utah ugly, Christian ugly, ugliness couched in dog whistles and toothy white smiles. Right-wing think pieces about entitlement thrown in his and June’s direction, reeking of: Mexicans stole the First Family jobs too.”

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473. “Is this what it’s always like? To want someone and know they want you back? How in the world does anyone get anything done?”

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474. “I go to haunt people but it always turns into a musical number. That’s the energy I want to bring to the hereafter.”

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475. “I want you to know I’m sure. A thousand percent.”

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476. “But isn’t there something to be valued in a happy ending as well?”

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477. “Many of the rooms in the White House have a similar hauntedness, a sense of history that hangs like cobwebs no matter how pristine the rooms are kept. He’s used to sleeping alongside ghosts, but that’s not it.”

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478. “Any number of lies can be manufactured and disseminated.”

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479. “Space and time are nothing.”

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480. “How was he supposed to know back then if he wanted to look like other guys, or if he wanted other guys?”

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481. “Ferris Bueller.”

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482. “I’m taking a picture of a gay landmark, and also a statue.”

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483. “Doing your part to keep the great American gossip industry alive?” “That’s what my journalism degree’s for,” June says.”

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484. “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.”

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485. “There are things out there for you that you haven’t even thought of yet, that you don’t even know how to think of yet. Who you are here doesn’t have to be the same as who you are out there. And if the person you feel like you have to be in this town doesn’t feel right to you, you’re allowed to leave. You’re allowed to exist. Even if it means existing somewhere else.”

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486. “A warning light flashes somewhere in August’s brain. Her mental field guide to making friends is a two-page pamphlet that just says: DON’T.”

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487. “Alex, Had to go early for a family matter. Left with the PPOs. Didn’t want to wake you. Thank you for everything. X It’s the last message Henry sends him.”

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488. “August’s brain tries “hi” and her mouth goes for “morning” and what comes out is, “Horny.”

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489. “Like countless others, I was afraid to say this out loud because of what the consequences might be. To you, specifically, I say: I see you. I am one of you. I am and I am bisexual. History will remember us.”

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

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491. “Doing the right things most of the time and most things for the right reasons.”

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492. “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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493. “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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494. “I know how it goes! We all age out of our parents’ insurance, and all of a sudden your friends stop having time to hang out because they have a person and that’s their best friend now, and they have a kid, and they move to the suburbs and you never see them again because you’re a lonely old spinster-.”

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

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496. “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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497. “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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498. “It shouldn’t work so perfectly-it makes absolutely no sense-but it does. There’s something about the two of them, the way they ignite at different temperatures, Alex’s frenetic energy and Henry’s aching sureness.”

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499. “She’s not an idea anymore – she’s Jane, hardheaded Jane, runaway Jane, smart-mouthed Jane, bruise-knuckled, soft-hearted agitator Jane. The girl stuck on the line with August’s heart in the pocket of her ratty jeans.”

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500. “He tells Alex about growing up... How he realized by the time he was four that every person in the country knew his name, and how he told his mother he didn’t know if he wanted them to.”

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