Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “One does not foster a lifelong love of Star Wars without knowing an “empire” isn’t a good thing.”

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102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “She doesn’t plant a seed of friendship and tend to it with gentle watering and sunlight. She drops into your life, fully formed, and just is. A friend in completion.”

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107. “Your hair in the mornings is truly a wonder to behold.”

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “You’re the most important person I’ve ever met.” she says. “And I should have never met you at all.”

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112. “I’ll be damned but I miss you.”

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113. “But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It’s good. Even when it’s bad, it’s good.”

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114. “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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115. “You are a delinquent and a plague. Please come.”

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116. “To every person in search of somewhere to belong who happened to pick up this book, I hope you found a place in here, even if just for a few pages. You are loved. I wrote this for you. Keep fighting, keep making history, keep looking after one another.”

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

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118. “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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119. “What she means is that nice and kind are not the same thing. Plenty of people aren’t nice at all, but they’re kind. And that’s what matters.”

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120. “I mean, honestly? That’s wife material. Like, three kids and a dog material. If she looked at me the way she looks at you, my IUD would have shot out like a party popper.”

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121. “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.”

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122. “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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123. “With me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”

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124. “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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125. “And there Henry is, in the flesh, as classically handsome as ever in his tailored three-piece suit, all tousled sandy hair and high cheekbones and a soft, friendly mouth.”

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126. “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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127. “The older she’s gotten, the more she prefers thinking of love as a hobby for other people, like rock climbing or knitting. Fine, enviable even, but she doesn’t feel like investing in the equipment.”

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128. “Whatever, fine. Henry is annoyingly attractive. That’s always been a thing, objectively. It’s fine.”

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129. “A veces, uno se lanza, abrigando la esperanza de no encontrarse con un precipicio al otro lado.”

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130. “Henry’s retort comes two days later by way of a screenshot of a Daily Mail tweet that reads, Is Alex Clarmount-Diaz going to be a father? The attached message says, But we were ever so careful, dear...”

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131. “She ran away because she didn’t think she could make her family happy and she never went back because she thought she did them a favor. She kept running because she never quite learned what home was supposed to feel like.”

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132. “Henry’s jaw is tight, but it’s not anger, only fear. Alex sees on his face an expression he recognizes: Henry wondering if it’s safe to accept the love offered to him, and wanting desperately to take it regardless.”

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133. “Myla spits in the sink. “Comatose in California is my favorite Lana Del Rey album.”

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134. “If Henry’s voice on the phone was a tether, his body is the gravity that makes it possible, his hand gripping the back of Alex’s neck a magnetic force, a permanent compass north.”

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135. “Hey, Coffee Girl.” “Hey, Subway Girl.”

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136. “Yeah, there’s a lot about this place that sucks, but it’s where I’m from. And honestly, sometimes I’m sick of you acting like you’re so much better than it, like your family’s not from here too.”

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

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138. “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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139. “That kind of love is rare, even if it was a complete disaster.” He sucks his teeth, considering. “Sometimes you just jump and hope it’s not a cliff.”

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140. “Sometimes. But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It’s good. Even when it’s bad, it’s good.” And August – well, August finds herself without a single damn thing to say to that.”

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141. “Everything was put in a specific place for a reason. Everything has a meaning, an intention.”

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142. “Maybe there’s more than one dream for you, or more than one way to get there.”

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143. “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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144. “Prince Henry is a biscuit,′ Nora says, ’let him sop you up.”

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145. “You had the absolute audacity to love me back.”

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146. “I cannot believe that even mortal peril will not prevent you from being the way you are.”

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147. “When you rang me at truly shocking hours of the night, I loved you. When you kissed me in disgusting public toilets and pouted in hotel bars and made me happy in ways in which it had never even occurred to me that a mangled-up, locked-up person like me could be happy, I loved you.”

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148. “What I want is... I want to fall in love. I want to have a big, dramatic, ridiculous love story, like a period piece, and my love interest is played by Saoirse Ronan and I get to wear a fancy corset. I want to write books about the way that feels. And I don’t know if I’ll ever have any of that here, but I know what I’ll lose if I leave.”

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149. “Jesus Christ, it’s like they can see into your soul. Cornbread knows my sins, Henry. Cornbread knows what I have done, and he is here to make me atone.”

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150. “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up.”

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