Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I don’t give a damn what.”

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

— Casey McQuiston

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

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

— Casey McQuiston

55. “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.”

— Casey McQuiston

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

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57. “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.”

— Casey McQuiston

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

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

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60. “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.”

— Casey McQuiston

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

— Casey McQuiston

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

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

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

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

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

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68. “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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69. “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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70. “Hey, have I told you lately that you’re brave? I still remember what you said to that little girl in the hospital about Luke Skywalker. ‘He’s proof that it doesn’t matter where you come from or who your family is.’ Sweetheart, you’re proof too.”

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

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

— Casey McQuiston

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

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75. “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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76. “20. The fact that you loved me all along.”

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

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78. “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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79. “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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80. “Please don’t worry about me. We’ll figure it out. It just might take time. I’ve been working on patience. I’ve picked up all kinds of things from you.”

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

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83. “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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84. “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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85. “I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”

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86. “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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87. “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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88. “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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89. “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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90. “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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91. “One day, he tells himself. One day, us too.”

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

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94. “A veces simplemente saltas y esperas que no sea un acantilado.”

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95. “She’s going to have to say this out loud, isn’t she? Bella Swan, eat your horny little Mormon heart out.”

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96. “It doesn’t feel like a Friday that should change everything. It’s the same as every Friday.”

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97. “The problem has always been this: When I look at you, I taste lime, and I see light on water.”

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98. “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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99. “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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100. “I don’t believe doing something in front of everybody makes it more meaningful, anyway. If anything, it makes it stop belonging to you.”

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