Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Seventy-eight percent probability of latent bisexual tendencies. One hundred percent probability this is not a hypothetical question.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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59. “I don’t give a damn what.”

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60. “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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61. “Still waters, deep dicking.”

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62. “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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63. “20. The fact that you loved me all along.”

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

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

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

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68. “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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69. “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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70. “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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71. “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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72. “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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73. “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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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. “Mutually satisfying sexual experiences do not a relationship make.”

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

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77. “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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78. “Love is a strange thing that could fall apart no matter how badly you wanted it, a choice you make anyway.”

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

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

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81. “Hey,” Alex says. Henry turns back to him, his eyes silver in the wash of the streetlight. “We won.” Henry takes his hand, one corner of his mouth tugging gently upward. “Yeah. We won.” Alex reaches down into the front of his dress shirt and finds the chain with his fingers, pulls it out carefully. The ring, the key. Under winter clouds, victorious, he unlocks the door.”

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

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83. “You’ve got a brighter glow than you realize.”

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84. “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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85. “Moans the name of God so many times the room feels consecrated.”

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86. “I’m not... god at saying these things like you are but, I’ve always thought... ever since I knew about me, and even before, when I could sense I was different – and, after everything the past few years, all the mad things my head does – I’ve always thought of myself as a problem that deserved to stay hidden. Never quite trusted myself, or what I wanted. Before you... I was all right letting everything happen to me. I honestly have never thought I deserved to choose. But you treat me like I do.”

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

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89. “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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90. “Niko and Myla could be on opposite sides of an ocean and they’d breathe in sync.”

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91. “He kisses Henry until it feels like he can’t breathe, until it feels like he’s going to forget both of their names and titles, until they’re only two people tangled up in a dark room making a brilliant, epic, unstoppable mistake.”

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92. “The turkeys are not going to Jurassic Park you,” he says. “You’re not the bloke from Seinfeld. You’re Jeff Goldblum. Go to sleep.”

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93. “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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94. “Everything is a story, never finished.”

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95. “The moment you first called me a prick, my fate was sealed. O, fathers of my bloodline! O, ye kings of olde! Take this crown from me, bury me in my ancestral soil. If only you had known the mighty work of thine loins would be undone by a gay heir who likes it when American boys with chin dimples are mean to him.”

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96. “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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97. “I have done some of the best work of my life because of you. And I know you have done some of the best work of your life because of me. I don’t know a better way to explain what love means to two people like us.”

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98. “In the middle of the broadcast: Amy at the front of the cheering crowd wearing June’s yellow History, huh? T-shirt and a trans flag pin. Next to her: Cash, with Amy’s wife on his shoulders in what Alex can now tell is the jean jacket Amy was embroidering in the plane in the colors of the pansexual flag. He whoops so hard he spills his coffee on George Bush’s favorite rug.”

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99. “Christ, you are as thick as it gets,′ he says, and he grabs Alex’s face in both hands and kisses him.”

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100. “This is why we need you,” Georgia says. “Once in a generation, there is born a bisexual who can do math. You’re the chosen one.”

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