Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Love is indomitable.”

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

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254. “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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255. “Her girl. She came back.”

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

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257. “A whole lifetime of fine.”

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258. “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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259. “Este beso es tan firme y tan enorme como el suelo que tiene bajo los pies, abarca todos los rincones de su ser, es muy capaz de dejarlo sin una gota de aire en los pulmones.”

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260. “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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261. “Sorry. Er. I was just. Cornettos.”

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

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

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266. “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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267. “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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268. “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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269. “He stood in front of the Privy Council and said ‘Christ had John, and I have George’.”

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270. “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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271. “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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272. “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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273. “Two homes side by side.”

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274. “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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275. “Never tell me the odds.”

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276. “Alex wants to rip it off.”

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277. “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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278. “And there Henry is, in the flesh, as classically handsome as ever in his tailored three-piece suit, all tousled sandy hair and high cheekbones and a soft, friendly mouth. He holds himself with innately impeccable posture, as if he emerged fully formed and upright out of some.”

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279. “I’ll take you apart with my teeth, sweetheart.”

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280. “New York takes from her, sometimes. But she takes too. She takes its muggy air in fistfuls, and she packs it into the cracks in her heart.”

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281. “So, if she’s the only one in the class of ’22 who’s really out for now, if her existence can provide cover for half her graduating class to stand up for something without saying things about themselves they can’t yet say, that’s enough. That’s plenty.”

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282. “She goes through the cards again and again, reading over Shara’s handwriting, which she’s come to know with a kind of intimacy that makes her want to lie down in the ditch behind her house and forget she even knew there were girls like Shara Wheeler.”

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283. “August Landry does not trust people, but she trusts fried chicken.”

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284. “He tells his too-fast brain: Don’t miss it this time. He’s too important.”

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285. “My family, made up of the children of immigrants, of people who love in defiance of expectations or condemnation, of women determined never to back down from what’s right, a braid of histories that stands for the future of America.”

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286. “If looking at Jane feels like flowers opening, being kissed by her feels heavier, the weight of a body that’ll be gone by morning settling into bed beside her. It reminds her of being homesick for months and tasting something familiar and realizing it’s even better than you remember, because it comes with the sweet gut punch of knowing and being known. It melts in her mouth like ice cream at the corner store when she was eight. It aches like a brick to the shin.”

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287. “She studies August’s face, and August can practically see that confidence meter of hers filling up, right to Smug Bastard, where it usually sits.”

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

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289. “You really can’t write teenage characters the same way you write adults. There should be more room for them to be messy and get things wrong, because that’s what being a teenager is. They don’t need to have things figured out, or even be anywhere close.”

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290. “I go to haunt people but it always turns into a musical number. That’s the energy I want to bring to the hereafter.”

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291. “Ferris Bueller.”

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

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293. “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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294. “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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295. “That night, as Alex stares into the cold, pitiless eyes of a prehistoric beast of prey, he has a few regrets.”

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

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297. “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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298. “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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299. “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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300. “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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