Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Look at them, Mum. They’re not props of a legacy. They’re my children. And I swear on my life, and Arthur’s I will take you off the throne before I will let them feel the things you made me feel.”

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

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203. “A veces saltas y esperas que no sea un precipicio.”

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204. “Love is indomitable.”

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205. “Coffee girl, don’t break my heart″ jane says.”

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206. “I feel like there are two different sides of me, like I could be anyone and touch anyone and love like that kind of Holy Ghost love – everywhere and everyone. Most of my friends act like they know exactly who and what they are, like there’s only one answer, but to me, that feels like putting a beginning and end on something that’s not supposed to have either.”

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207. “How am I supposed to do that? He has the personality of a cabbage.”

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208. “At cruising altitude, he takes the chain off his neck and slides the ring on next to the old house key. They clink together gently as he tucks them both under his shirt, two homes side by side.”

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209. “I didn’t know you wore glasses,” he says finally.”

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210. “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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211. “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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212. “Jane’s leaning in, taking advantage of her height to bracket August in, burning so hot that August can’t make sense of the chill sweeping up her spine. So steady and beautiful and close, too close, never close enough, and August is so completely, irreversibly, spectacularly screwed.”

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

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214. “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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215. “Jane is spun sugar. A switchblade girl with a cotton-candy heart.”

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216. “Nora, what’s the math?” June says, rounding on her, a slightly frantic look in her eyes. “I majored in nouns.”

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217. “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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218. “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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219. “And so, in her first month in the apartment on the corner of Flatbush and Parkside above the Popeyes, August learns that the Q is a time, a place, and a person.”

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220. “She was walking through the shelves and imagining herself there one day, one spine tucked alongside all the others, fitting in perfectly.”

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221. “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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222. “If there’s any legacy for me on this earth, I want it to be true.”

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223. “I’m there for whatever you decide you want to do, just, like, let me know if I need to start practicing gazing wistfully out the window, waiting for my love to return from the war.”

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224. “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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225. “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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226. “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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227. “In an instant of sudden, vivid clarity, he can’t believe he ever thought he was straight.”

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228. “Which leaves June, next to him, leaning on one elbow with her nose buried in the issue of People she’s inexplicably brought with them. She always chooses the most bizarre reading material for flights. Last time, it was a battered old Cantonese phrase book. Before that, Death Comes for the Archbishop.”

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229. “I’d like to be just like Princess Leia when I’m older because she’s so tough and smart and strong, and she gets to kiss Han Solo.”

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230. “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 going blindly in a certain direction and hoping for the best.”

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231. “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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232. “God Save the Queen.”

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233. “I always liked Luke. He’s brave and good, and he’s the strongest Jedi of them all. I think Luke is proof that it doesn’t matter where you come from or who your family is – you can always be great if you’re true to yourself.”

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234. “This is it. October 2, 2020, and the whole world watched, and history remembered.”

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235. “His Royal Highness Prince Henry wonders if you would do him the honor of accompanying him for a dance.”

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236. “While she does like boys, she generally finds the traits of a compelling villain – arrogance, malice, an angsty backstory – tedious in a man. Like, what do hot guys with long dark hair even have to be that upset about? Get a clarifying shampoo and suck it up, Kylo Ren. So your rich parents sent you to magic camp and you didn’t make any friends. Big deal.”

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237. “Aw, little buddy,” Nora says. She reaches over and pats his hand. “It’s cute how you think everything is about you.” “It should be, honestly.” “That’s the spirit.”

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238. “You want to take what you were given and leave the world better than you found it. So do I. We can – we can figure out a way to do that together.”

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239. “It’s incredible and baffling, the way Henry’s confidence comes in waves like this, how he struggles so much to get through the asking for what he wants and then readily takes it the moment he’s given permission, like at the bar, how the right push had him dancing and shouting as if he’d been waiting for someone to tell him he was allowed to do it.”

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240. “Hi, love,” he hears Henry say quietly, privately, right into the hair above his ear, and Alex’s breath forgets how to do anything but laugh helplessly.”

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

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242. “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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243. “Alex hasn’t been a good Catholic in a long time, but he knows confession is a sacrament.”

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244. “God, Shall I compare thee to an icebox pie? Couldn’t be gayer if she tried.”

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245. “Any number of lies can be manufactured and disseminated.”

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246. “August es un momento, un lugar y una persona.”

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247. “There are things out there for you that you haven’t even thought of yet, that you don’t even know how to think of yet. Who you are here doesn’t have to be the same as who you are out there. And if the person you feel like you have to be in this town doesn’t feel right to you, you’re allowed to leave. You’re allowed to exist. Even if it means existing somewhere else.”

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248. “Alex, Had to go early for a family matter. Left with the PPOs. Didn’t want to wake you. Thank you for everything. X It’s the last message Henry sends him.”

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249. “Henry looks Philip square in the face and says, “I’ve been gay as a maypole since the day I came out of Mum, Philip.”

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

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