Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “All I want is a nice girlfriend in a cottage where we have philosophical conversations over scones or something.”

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202. “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.”

— Casey McQuiston

203. “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!”

— Casey McQuiston

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

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205. “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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206. “Saved by God first and her God complex second.”

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207. “Love is indomitable.”

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208. “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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209. “Her girl. She came back.”

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210. “He’s too perfect. Alex wants to poke it.”

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211. “A whole lifetime of fine.”

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212. “I’m conscious this could be rather burdensome to hear, but you remain the thing I have most chosen for myself. The things that’s most exclusively mine. The one that brings me the deepest joy.”

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213. “Sorry. Er. I was just. Cornettos.”

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

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215. “Please do keep me in your – what is it American politicians say? – thoughts and prayers.”

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

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218. “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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219. “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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220. “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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221. “You’re thirty-nine.” “My liver is ninety-three.”

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

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223. “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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224. “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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225. “She feels like spine of a book about to crack and spill out all the love story guts.”

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

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

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229. “It’s like I died... I died, except I have to feel it. And on top of that, I have to feel everything else I’ve ever felt all over again. I have to get the bad news again every day, I have to deal with the choices I made, and I can’t fix it. I can’t even run from it. It’s miserable, August.”

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230. “Never tell me the odds.”

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231. “Alex wants to rip it off.”

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232. “So, what? he asks. You want me to quit politics and go become a princess? That’s not very feminist of you. That’s not how feminism works, she says, rolling her eyes.”

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

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234. “Henry touches his hand, gently, two fingertips against his palm. “Five minutes for the rest of our lives,” he says, laughing a grim little laugh. Alex reaches for him in return, presses one thumb into the hollow of his collarbone, slipping right under the knot of his tie.”

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235. “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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236. “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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237. “Well, Alex is so in love he could die.”

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238. “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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239. “I did get both the gay kings,” Henry points our. ‘There’s a prophecy for you.”

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240. “Ugh! Men!” she groans. “No emotional vocabulary. I can’t believe our ancestors survived centuries of wars and plagues and genocide just to wind up with your sorry ass.”

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

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242. “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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243. “August can feel her face glowing red to match the scarf, like a giant, stammering, bisexual chameleon. An evolutionary mistake.”

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244. “Tu madre ha sido, sin la menor duda, el amor de mi vida. Jamas amare a nadie como la he amado a ella. Era una pasion devoradora. Un amor asi es muy raro de encontrar. A veces, uno se lanza, abrigando la esperanza de no encontrarse con un precipicio al otro lado.”

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245. “Anderson Cooper’s face looms on the screen like a disgustingly handsome Hunger Games cannon, announcing they’re ready to call Florida.”

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246. “You can try, she guesses. You can tear yourself apart and rebuild from stratch, bring yourself to every corner of the map, sew a new self from the scraps of a thousand other people and places. You can try to escape to fill a different shape. But at the end of the day, there’s a place at the foot of the bed where your shoes hit the floor, and it’s the same. It’s always the same.”

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247. “Shara’s always been this person. ‘This is what I’ve been trying to tell you’, she wrote on a card stuck under an auditorium seat. Shara’s not nice. Shara’s so many more important things than nice.”

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248. “Alex wants to go to war for this man, wants to get his hands on everything and everyone that ever hurt him.”

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249. “Remus John Lupin is gay as the day is long.”

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250. “Royal weddings are trash, the princes who have royal weddings are trash, the imperialism that allows princes to exist at all is trash. It’s trash turtles all the way down.”

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