Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You love so much bigger than yourself, bigger than everything. I can’t believe how lucky I am to even witness it – to be the one who gets to have it, so much of it, is beyond luck and feels like fate.”

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52. “Someone else’s choice doesn’t change who you are.”

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53. “The harrowing struggle of managing the empire’s blood money.’... ‘That was actually the crux of the meeting – I’ve tried to refuse my share of the crown’s money. Dad left us each more than enough, and I’d rather cover my expenses with that than the spoils of, you know, centuries of genocide. Philip thinks I’m being ridiculous.”

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54. “Never before had there been a prince quite like him: born with his heart on the outside of his body.”

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55. “The next slide is titled: ‘Exploring your sexuality: Healthy, but does it have to be with the Prince of England?”

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56. “Buy a summer home in Majorca with the turkey...”

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57. “I don’t give a damn what Joanne has to say, Remus Lupin is as gay as the day is long.”

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58. “Everything is a story, never finished.”

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59. “Because you’re it, okay? I’m never gonna love anybody in the world like I love you.”

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60. “Henry lets Alex take him apart with painstaking patience and precision, moans the name of God so many times that the room feels consecrated.”

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61. “Maybe I don’t know what fills it in yet, but I can look at the space around where I sit in the world, what creates that shape, and I can care about what it’s made of, if it’s good, if it hurts anyone, it makes people happy, if it makes me happy. And that can be enough for now.”

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62. “Seventy-eight percent probability of latent bisexual tendencies. One hundred percent probability this is not a hypothetical question.”

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63. “When you spend your whole life alone, it’s incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in. Where being alone looks like a choice.”

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64. “Give yourself away sometimes, sweetheart, There’s so much of you.”

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65. “I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”

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66. “Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”

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67. “And the whole world watched, and history remembered.”

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68. “He’s not afraid of anything he feels. He’s not afraid of saying it. He’s only afraid of what happens when he does.”

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69. “You’ve been, like, Draco Malfoy–level obsessed with Henry for years.”

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70. “20. The fact that you loved me all along.”

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71. “Maybe no good timing means there’s no bad timing either.”

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72. “Hey, don’t threaten me with a good time.”

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73. “After Secret Service misread an olive-based shouting match in 2017 and almost put the Residence on lockdown, they now each get their own pizzas.”

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74. “But the first time I saw you. Rio. I took that down to the gardens. I pressed it into the leaves of a silver maple and recited it to the Waterloo Vase. It didn’t fit in any rooms.”

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75. “Straight people, he thinks, probably don’t spend this much time convincing themselves that they’re straight.”

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76. “I don’t give a damn what Joanne has to say, Remus John Lupin is gay as the day is long, and I won’t hear a word against it.”

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77. “Of course I love you. I could go back in time and have a whole life and get old and never see you again, and you would still be it. You were – you are the love of my life.”

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78. “He feels like a dog that has to be taken on walks to get his energy out. Especially when June says, “You’re like a dog that has to be taken on walks to get his energy out”.”

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79. “Alex Claremont-Diaz, it is almost seven,” Zahra shouts through the door. “You have a strategy meeting in fifteen minutes, and I have a key, so I don’t care how naked you are, if you don’t answer this door in the next thirty seconds, I’m coming in.”

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80. “Sometimes you have a fire under your ass for no good goddamn reason. You’re gonna burn out like this.”

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81. “And then, inexplicably, you had the absolute audacity to love me back.”

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82. “On purpose. I love him on purpose.”

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83. “And Alex’s heart doesn’t spread itself out in his chest, and he doesn’t have to grip the edge of the settee to steady himself. Because that’s what he would do if he were here in this palace to fall in love with Henry, and not just continuing this thing where they fly across the world to touch each other and don’t talk about it. That’s not why he’s here. It’s not.”

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84. “You need to understand this to be with Henry. He is the most loving, nurturing, selfless person you could hope to meet, but there is a sadness and a hurt in him that is tremendous, and you may very well never truly understand it, but you need to love it as much as you love the rest of him, because that’s him. That is him, part and parcel. And he is prepared to give it all to you, which is far more than I ever, in a thousand years, thought I would see him do.”

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85. “She’s a fighter, a riot girl, and she can’t be any of that down here, so she runs between trains to feel something.”

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86. “It’s like how he only wears his glasses when nobody’s around: Nobody’s supposed to see how much he needs.”

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87. “Words that went down in history. “Meet you in every dream... Keep most of your heart in Washington... Miss you like a home... We two longing loves... My young king.” One day, he tells himself. One day, us too.”

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88. “One day, he tells himself. One day, us too.”

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89. “I used to think, if I pictured the person I wanted to be and took all the crazy anxiety in my brain and narrowed it down to that point, I could rewire it. Use it to power something else. It’s like I never learned how to just be where I am.”

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90. “I don’t suppose you’ll be anywhere near Kensington anytime soon?” “That shithole?” he says with a wink. “Not if I can help it.” “Oi,” Henry says. He’s grinning now. “That’s disrespect of the crown, that is. Insubordination. I’ve thrown men in the dungeons for less.” Alex turns, walking backward toward the car, hands in the air. “Hey, don’t threaten me with a good time.”

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91. “Do you feel forever about him?” And there’s no room left to agonize over it, nothing left to do but say the thing he is known all along. “Yeah,” he says, “I do.”

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92. “One does not foster a lifelong love of Star Wars without knowing an “empire” isn’t a good thing.”

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93. “The way Henry’s looking at him in the picture is so affectionate, so openly loving, that seeing it from a third person’s perspective almost makes Alex want to look away, like he’s staring into the sun. He called Henry the North Star once. That wasn’t bright enough.”

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94. “Mutually satisfying sexual experiences do not a relationship make.”

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95. “Every person who bears a legacy makes the choice of a partner with whom they will share it with, whom the American people will hold beside them in hearts and memories and history books. America: He is my choice.”

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96. “Sometimes the point is to be sad, August. Sometimes you just have to feel it because it deserves to be felt.”

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97. “He wants to match the new freckles along Henry’s nose to the stars above them and make him name the constellations.”

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98. “But beneath it all, there’s the Prince of England kissing him under a linden tree in the garden, moonlight in his hair, and Alex’s insides feel positively molten, and he wants to throw himself down the presidential stairs.”

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99. “Quisiera emparejar las pecas que salpican su nariz con las estrellas que brillan ahora mismo en el cielo, y poner su nombre a las constelaciones.”

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100. “I’ll be damned but I miss you.”

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