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Casey McQuiston Quote: “The rats are almost definitely unionizing.”

151. “The rats are almost definitely unionizing.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “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.”

152. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “The search tells him Pyramus and Thisbe were lovers in a Greek myth, children of rival families, forbidden to be together. Their only way to speak to each other was through a thin crack in the wall built between them.”

153. “The search tells him Pyramus and Thisbe were lovers in a Greek myth, children of rival families, forbidden to be together. Their only way to speak to each other was through a thin crack in the wall built between them.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “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.”

154. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “He stood in front of the Privy Council and said ‘Christ had John, and I have George’.”

155. “He stood in front of the Privy Council and said ‘Christ had John, and I have George’.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “She feels like spine of a book about to crack and spill out all the love story guts.”

156. “She feels like spine of a book about to crack and spill out all the love story guts.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “What?” she says. “I want to be prepared for my first-ever royal wedding.” “You went to prom, didn’t you?” Alex says. “Just picture that, only in hell, and you have to be really nice about it.”

157. “What?” she says. “I want to be prepared for my first-ever royal wedding.” “You went to prom, didn’t you?” Alex says. “Just picture that, only in hell, and you have to be really nice about it.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Like – okay, I dated this girl who was an artist, right? And she’d do figure drawing where she’d draw the negative space around a person first, and then fill in the person. and that’s how I’m trying to look at it. 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.”

158. “Like – okay, I dated this girl who was an artist, right? And she’d do figure drawing where she’d draw the negative space around a person first, and then fill in the person. and that’s how I’m trying to look at it. 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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “I don’t know. Like my heart is gonna come out of my ass and suplex me into the mantle of the earth, I guess.”

159. “I don’t know. Like my heart is gonna come out of my ass and suplex me into the mantle of the earth, I guess.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “In an instant of sudden, vivid clarity, he can’t believe he ever thought he was straight.”

160. “In an instant of sudden, vivid clarity, he can’t believe he ever thought he was straight.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “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.”

161. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Prince Henry is a biscuit,′ Nora says, ’let him sop you up.”

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

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “You had the absolute audacity to love me back.”

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

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “I cannot believe that even mortal peril will not prevent you from being the way you are.”

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

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “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.”

165. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “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.”

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

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

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

168. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Awesome, fuckin’ love doing things out of spite.”

169. “Awesome, fuckin’ love doing things out of spite.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “The andante- the third movement- is his favorite, he explains, because he read once that it was written to evoke the image of a castle in ruins, which he found darkly funny at the time.”

170. “The andante- the third movement- is his favorite, he explains, because he read once that it was written to evoke the image of a castle in ruins, which he found darkly funny at the time.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “When Alex was a kid, before anyone knew his name, he dreamed of love like it was a fairy tale, as if it would come sweeping into his life on the back of a dragon one day. When he got older, he learned about love as a strange thing that could fall apart no matter how badly you wanted it, a choice you make anyway. He never imagined it’d turn out he was right both times.”

171. “When Alex was a kid, before anyone knew his name, he dreamed of love like it was a fairy tale, as if it would come sweeping into his life on the back of a dragon one day. When he got older, he learned about love as a strange thing that could fall apart no matter how badly you wanted it, a choice you make anyway. He never imagined it’d turn out he was right both times.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “August, we’re adults. Just say you got your back blown out.”

172. “August, we’re adults. Just say you got your back blown out.”

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

173. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “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.”

174. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Henry’s whole face grimaces in frustration, his eyes casting skyward like they’re searching for help from an uncaring universe. “Christ, you are as thick as it gets,” he says, and he grabs Alex’s face in both hands and kisses him.”

175. “Henry’s whole face grimaces in frustration, his eyes casting skyward like they’re searching for help from an uncaring universe. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “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.”

176. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Dear Freddie Mercury, when you wrote “Love of My Life,” did you mean for it to reach across space and time in a platonic way or a real-deal, break-your-heart, throw-you-up-against-a-wall type of way?”

177. “Dear Freddie Mercury, when you wrote “Love of My Life,” did you mean for it to reach across space and time in a platonic way or a real-deal, break-your-heart, throw-you-up-against-a-wall type of way?”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “It’s unpredictable and it’s intoxicating and it’s fun, because Alex has never met a challenge he didn’t love, and he – well, Henry is a challenge, head to toe, beginning to end.”

178. “It’s unpredictable and it’s intoxicating and it’s fun, because Alex has never met a challenge he didn’t love, and he – well, Henry is a challenge, head to toe, beginning to end.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “My whole life has been about fighting. I fought.”

179. “My whole life has been about fighting. I fought.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “He’s not, he thinks, upset people know. He’s always been pretty unapologetic when it came to things like who he dates and what he’s into, although those were never anything like this. Still, the cocky shithead part of him is slightly pleased to finally have a claim on Henry. Yep, the prince? Most eligible bachelor in the world? British accent, face like a Greek god, legs for days? Mine.”

180. “He’s not, he thinks, upset people know. He’s always been pretty unapologetic when it came to things like who he dates and what he’s into, although those were never anything like this. Still, the cocky shithead part of him is slightly pleased to finally have a claim on Henry. Yep, the prince? Most eligible bachelor in the world? British accent, face like a Greek god, legs for days? Mine.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “I want you to know I’m sure. A thousand percent.”

181. “I want you to know I’m sure. A thousand percent.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “She can’t believe a tall butch subway angel saw her crying into her coffee tits.”

182. “She can’t believe a tall butch subway angel saw her crying into her coffee tits.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “It’s weird because I always know things about people, gut feelings that usually lead me in more or less the right direction. I do think I got a gut feeling with you, I just didn’t have what I needed in my head to understand it. But I kind of kept chasing it anyway, like I was just going blindly in a certain direction and hoping for the best. I guess that makes you the North Star?”

183. “It’s weird because I always know things about people, gut feelings that usually lead me in more or less the right direction. I do think I got a gut feeling with you, I just didn’t have what I needed in my head to understand it. But I kind of kept chasing it anyway, like I was just going blindly in a certain direction and hoping for the best. I guess that makes you the North Star?”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “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.”

184. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Okay, but, uh, what if they escape? I’ve seen Jurassic Park. Did you know birds are directly descended from raptors? That’s a scientific fact. Raptors in my bedroom, Henry. And you want me to go to sleep like they’re not gonna bust out of their enclosures and take over the island the minute I close my eyes? Okay. Maybe your white ass.”

185. “Okay, but, uh, what if they escape? I’ve seen Jurassic Park. Did you know birds are directly descended from raptors? That’s a scientific fact. Raptors in my bedroom, Henry. And you want me to go to sleep like they’re not gonna bust out of their enclosures and take over the island the minute I close my eyes? Okay. Maybe your white ass.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Wait,” she says, reaching for his phone again, “are you watching videos of Justin Trudeau speaking French again?”

186. “Wait,” she says, reaching for his phone again, “are you watching videos of Justin Trudeau speaking French again?”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “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.”

187. “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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Casey McQuiston Quote: “It’s about to be gay DEFCON five in this administration. For God’s sake, put some clothes on.”

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

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “You’re thirty-nine.” “My liver is ninety-three.”

189. “You’re thirty-nine.” “My liver is ninety-three.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they’re inaccessible. You must invent an entirely new system.”

190. “A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they’re inaccessible. You must invent an entirely new system.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Her whole life, the gnaw of anxiety has made people opaque to her. No matter how well she knows someone, no matter the logical patterns, no matter how many allowances she knows someone might make for her – that bone-deep fear of rejection has always made it impossible for her to see any of it. It frosts over the glass. She never had anyone to begin with, so she let it be unsurprising that nobody would want to have her around.”

191. “Her whole life, the gnaw of anxiety has made people opaque to her. No matter how well she knows someone, no matter the logical patterns, no matter how many allowances she knows someone might make for her – that bone-deep fear of rejection has always made it impossible for her to see any of it. It frosts over the glass. She never had anyone to begin with, so she let it be unsurprising that nobody would want to have her around.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Why is it so bad to want to feel special, or loved, or accpeted?”

192. “Why is it so bad to want to feel special, or loved, or accpeted?”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “How do you do all the good you can do?”

193. “How do you do all the good you can do?”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Mi vida entera ha sido una lucha. De modo que he luchado.”

194. “Mi vida entera ha sido una lucha. De modo que he luchado.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,′ Thoreau had said. ‘Live the life you’ve imagined.”

195. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,′ Thoreau had said. ‘Live the life you’ve imagined.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “So, I convinced myself that, because the statistical likelihood of something happening in real life exactly the way I imagined it was so low, if I imagined the worst possible things in vivid detail, I could mathematically reduce the odds of them happening. I convinced myself that my brain had power over the probability projections of the universe. I’d lie awake at night thinking about all the worst stuff that could happen like it was my job, and I don’t know if I ever really broke the habit.”

196. “So, I convinced myself that, because the statistical likelihood of something happening in real life exactly the way I imagined it was so low, if I imagined the worst possible things in vivid detail, I could mathematically reduce the odds of them happening. I convinced myself that my brain had power over the probability projections of the universe. I’d lie awake at night thinking about all the worst stuff that could happen like it was my job, and I don’t know if I ever really broke the habit.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “I don’t know, man. I was in my junior year of high school, and I touched a boob. It wasn’t very profound. Nobody’s gonna write an Off-Broadway play about it.”

197. “I don’t know, man. I was in my junior year of high school, and I touched a boob. It wasn’t very profound. Nobody’s gonna write an Off-Broadway play about it.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Never tell me the odds.”

198. “Never tell me the odds.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “Hi,” he says, when he reaches Henry’s eye level. “Hello,” Henry says back. “I’m gonna take your pants off now,” Alex tells him. “Yes, good, carry on.”

199. “Hi,” he says, when he reaches Henry’s eye level. “Hello,” Henry says back. “I’m gonna take your pants off now,” Alex tells him. “Yes, good, carry on.”

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Casey McQuiston Quote: “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.”

200. “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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