Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Listen, I’m telling you right now, I will physically fight your grandmother myself if I have to, okay? And, like, she’s old. I know I can take her.”

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152. “Well, Alex is so in love he could die.”

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153. “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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154. “One day, he tells himself. One day, us too.”

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155. “There are the flaws everyone’s allowed to see – his big mouth, his mercurial temper, his searing impulses – and then there’s this. 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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156. “If there’s any legacy for me on this earth, I want it to be true.”

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157. “She was beautiful like a city you always wanted to go to, like how you wait years and years for the right time, and then as soon as you get there, you have to taste everything and touch everything and learn every street by name. I felt like I knew her. She reminded me who I was. She had soft lips and green eyes and a body that wouldn’t quit. Hair like you wouldn’t believe. Stubborn, sharp as a knife. And I never, ever wanted a person to save me until she did.”

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158. “If it weren’t for her morning meditation sessions, Alex is sure his mom would have throttled an aide by now.”

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159. “It’s about to be gay DEFCON five in this administration. For God’s sake, put some clothes on.”

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160. “Love, Henry has found, has a way of growing backward. You fall in love with a person in the present, and then every person you’ve ever been gets to fall in love with every past version of them.”

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161. “He likes taking Henry apart, but there’s something incredibly intimate about sitting on the bed they wrecked te night before.”

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162. “Henry permite que Alex le haga el amor con precision y paciencia, y pronuncia tantas veces el nombre de Dios entre gemidos que la habitacion entera adquiere un aire de estancia consagrada.”

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163. “The loudest Christians I’ve ever met were the worst ones. I don’t believe doing something in front of everybody makes it more meaningful, anyway. If anything, it makes it stop belonging to you. Sometimes, when I walk into a church, I’m not sure I’m supposed to be there, even though it feels like home. Home hasn’t always been a good place for me to be.”

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164. “Alex has been learning for a while Henry isn’t what he thought, but it’s something else to feel it this close up, the quiet burn in him, the pent-up person under the perfect veneer who tries and pushes and wants.”

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165. “He keeps waking up in DC, and Henry keeps waking up in London, and the whole world keeps waking up to talk about the two of them in love with other people.”

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

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167. “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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168. “I am very, very gay.”

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169. “How many times do I have to tell y’all not to discuss your murder plots in front of a sitting president?” their mother interrupts. “Plausible deniability. Come on.”

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170. “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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171. “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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172. “You’re thirty-nine.” “My liver is ninety-three.”

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173. “No se cultiva un amor imperecedero por ‘La guerra de las galaxias’ si no se sabe que un “imperio” no es algo bueno.”

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

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175. “So I can offer all of me. In whatever way you’ll have. And I can offer you the chance of a life if you can wait, I want you to help me try.”

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176. “You have so much in you, it’s almost impossible to match it. But he’s your match, dumbass.”

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177. “Maybe they had the right idea, as far as secrecy goes. The loudest Christians I’ve ever met were the worst ones. 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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178. “I’ll take you apart with my teeth, sweetheart.”

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179. “You only just noticed she has one outfit?” “I don’t know! It’s ripped jeans and a leather jacket! Every lesbian I’ve ever met has that outfit!”

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180. “Alex makes a mental note to figure out which shadowy gay noble taught Henry all this and send the man a fruit basket.”

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181. “Love is like a fairy tale, it would come sweeping into your life on the back of a dragon one day.”

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182. “Who is giving you hickeys, and why have you not gotten them to sign an NDA?”

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183. “He’s like a cardboard cutout of a person.”

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184. “A three-line email, an excerpt dug up from an archived letter. Hamilton to Laurens, You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent, and not knowing if Henry felt a pang when he read it, if he opened it at all.”

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185. “No, what I’m gonna do is silently compile and process enough data to know exactly what’s gonna happen for the next twenty-five years. Then I’m gonna buy a house on the top of a very tall hill at the edge of the city and become an eccentric recluse and sit on my veranda. Watch it all unfold through a pair of binoculars.”

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186. “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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187. “But the thing is, jumping off cliffs is kinda my thing. That’s the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”

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188. “The rats are almost definitely unionizing.”

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189. “But he thinks about Henry, and, oh. He thinks about Henry, and something twists in his chest, like a stretch he’s been avoiding for too long.”

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190. “Who names a dog David? He sounds like a tax attorney.”

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191. “All I want is a nice girlfriend in a cottage where we have philosophical conversations over scones or something.”

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

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193. “Listen, they look best on my ass. The J. Crew ones wrinkle all weird. And they’re not khakis, they’re chinos. Khakis are for white people.”

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194. “There’s no point to it, loving a girl who can’t touch the ground.”

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195. “They clink together gently as he tucks them both under his shirt, two homes side by side.”

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196. “Alex wants to rip it off.”

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197. “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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198. “Her girl. She came back.”

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199. “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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200. “I honestly have never felt like I deserved to choose. But you treat me like I do.”

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