Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Alex feels like somebody has probably warned him about private email servers before, but he’s a little fuzzy on the details. It’s doesn’t feel important.”

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202. “So it goes, and Henry is there, in his head and his lecture notes and his cubicle, every single stupid day, no matter how many shots of espresso he puts in his coffee.”

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203. “That was the moment he decided he wasn’t going to allow himself nerves ever again. Not as Alex Claremont-Diaz, First Son of the United States, and not as Alex Claremont-Diaz, rising political star.”

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

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205. “Alex ducks out of an aggressive come-on by a girl from the new Spider-Man movies.”

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206. “Oh, like, I thought we were already there with you being bi and everything. Sorry, are we not? Did I skip ahead again? My bad. Hello, would you like to come out to me? I’m listening.”

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207. “Because you got what you need. And sometimes, the universe has your back.”

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208. “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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209. “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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210. “I’d rather be waterboarded,” Henry says, smiling back. The camera snaps nearby. His eyes are big and soft and blue, and he desperately needs to be punched in one of them. “Your country could probably arrange that.”

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

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212. “There’s this feeling August has had everywhere she’s ever lived, like she’s not really there. Like it’s all happening in a dream. She walks down the street, and it’s like she’s floating a few inches off the pavement, never rooted down.”

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213. “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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214. “Two homes side by side.”

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215. “Henry, who can drone on about Lord Byron until you threaten to block his number.”

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216. “It’s like I never learned how to just be where I am.”

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

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218. “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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219. “It’s easy to know who you are when you chose once and never changed your mind.”

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220. “It’s the first time Alex has seen Henry in person since the weekend in London and the hundreds of texts and weird in-jokes and late-night phone calls that came after, and it almost feels like meeting a new person. He knows more about Henry, understands him better, and he can appreciate the rarity of a genuine smile on the same famously beautiful face.”

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221. “I majored in nouns.”

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222. “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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223. “He’s just as attracted to Henry’s cloudy tempers, the way he comes back from them, and the million of shades in between.”

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224. “The way Henry talks about him is a physical feat, drifting up in the corners with fondness but sagging in the middle under the weight.”

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

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

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

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228. “So you like Bake Off, huh?” “It’s just so soothing,” Henry says. “Everything’s all pastel-colored and the music is so relaxing and everyone’s so lovely to one another. And you learn so much about different types of biscuits, Alex.”

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229. “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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230. “Or his senior year, when he got drunk and made out with Liam in his twin bed for an hour, and he didn’t have a sexual crisis about it – that had to mean he was straight, right? Because if he were into guys, it would have felt scary to be with one, but it wasn’t.”

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231. “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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232. “Come on. I’m trying to give you some advice, from one old man to a much younger version of himself.” “You’re thirty-nine.” “My liver is ninety-three.” “That’s not my fault.” “Some late nights in Denver would beg to differ.”

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233. “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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234. “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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235. “In an instant of sudden, vivid clarity, he can’t believe he ever thought he was straight.”

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236. “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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237. “I don’t think I could possibly have found a more doomed first love, but it’s worth it. It’s probably going to break my heart, and it’s still worth it.”

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238. “5. All the things I understand about myself now because of you.”

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239. “He’s in stupid, unbearable love, and Henry loves him too, and at least for one night it matters, even if they both have to pretend to forget in the morning.”

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240. “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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241. “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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242. “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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243. “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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244. “Sorry. Er. I was just. Cornettos.”

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245. “God Save the Queen.”

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

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

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249. “The class is Ethical Issues in International Relations. He really has got to stop taking classes so painfully relevant to his life.”

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

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