Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “God Save the Queen.”

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302. “Which means, of course, the next time August steps on the Q, Jane says, “I think I should kiss you.”

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

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304. “Love is like a fairy tale, it would come sweeping into your life on the back of a dragon one day.”

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305. “One. The Gun File. A detailed index of every kind of insane gun Americans can own and state-by-State regulations, which he has to comb through for research on a new set of federal assault rifle policies. It’s got a giant smudge of pizza sauce on it because it makes him stress eat.”

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306. “There was this one weekend, a million summers ago, when I sat on the shore drinking a frozen limeade, and I realized the only thing I wanted to look at was the way the sun hit the girls swimming in the lake. The problem has always been this: When I look at you, I taste lime, and I see light on water.”

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307. “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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308. “The roots. He could go outside and dig his fingers into the springy ground and understand anything about himself.”

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

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310. “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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311. “The most flagrant of evidence can be discredited and dismissed.”

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312. “I love him on purpose.”

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313. “When he sinks into thoughts of Henry’s hands, square knuckles and elegant fingers, he wonders how he never realized it before.”

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314. “Te quiero. El verano no acaba nunca.”

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315. “ATTN: will be wearing a burgundy velvet suit tonight. please do not attempt to steal my shine. you will fail and i will be embarrassed for you.”

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316. “Doing the right things most of the time and most things for the right reasons.”

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317. “I know how it goes! We all age out of our parents’ insurance, and all of a sudden your friends stop having time to hang out because they have a person and that’s their best friend now, and they have a kid, and they move to the suburbs and you never see them again because you’re a lonely old spinster-.”

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318. “Call me old-fashioned, but a man’s place is in the basement, preparing vocal exercises for his more talented wife.”

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319. “It shouldn’t work so perfectly-it makes absolutely no sense-but it does. There’s something about the two of them, the way they ignite at different temperatures, Alex’s frenetic energy and Henry’s aching sureness.”

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320. “He tells Alex about growing up... How he realized by the time he was four that every person in the country knew his name, and how he told his mother he didn’t know if he wanted them to.”

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321. “I saw myself in the rearview mirror of a person I’ve loved since I was thirteen, and I felt endless. Like, Holy Spirit endless. Maybe that’s what it means to feel like myself.”

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322. “She moves like art. She finds every piece holding August together and works it loose until she feels like she’s spilling out of herself. August’s at sea, she’s clay in the hands of someone who knows how to make a life out of nothing, she’s a girl underneath a girl in a bed they both almost died to get to.”

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

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324. “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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325. “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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326. “Look, I was gay in the ’70s. I can handle an emergency.”

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327. “Sometimes August thinks Jane looks like a watercolor painting, fluid and lovely, darker in places, bleeding through the page.”

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328. “Isaiah ignores them and continues to yell at August’s tits. “Jane! The party’s not over yet! You should come!”

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329. “So I can offer you all of me, in whatever way you’ll have me, and I can offer you the chance of a life.”

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330. “But he thinks about Henry, and, oh. He thinks about Henry, and something twists in his chest, like a stretch he’s been avoiding for too long.”

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331. “She listens to the bass lines spilling over one another, and it starts to make sense. The music, and why it might mean so much to someone.”

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332. “And maybe you can make her happy while she’s here. Maybe it’s selfish to keep that from her. Maybe it’s selfish to keep it from you.”

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333. “They clink together gently as he tucks them both under his shirt, two homes side by side.”

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334. “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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335. “5. All the things I understand about myself now because of you.”

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336. “You were the only one it could be.”

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337. “You engross my thoughts too intirely to allow me to think of any thing else – you not only employ my mind all day; but you intrude upon my sleep. I meet you in every dream – and when I wake I cannot close my eyes again for ruminating on your sweetness.”

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338. “He’s absolutely sure that guys who kissed the Prince of England and liked it don’t get elected to represent Texas.”

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339. “What? Pick the lock?” Wes says. “What kind of feral child are you? Are you Jessica Jones?”

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340. “To me, Theo is the eternal foreground. I put them at the center of every room. It’s gratifying when the room agrees.”

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341. “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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342. “Out here the sun hangs as wonderfully fat in the sky as it did in Florence, but it doesn’t scorch. It soaks into the hills like oil into thick, well-risen bread, and we spread ourselves across them like happy little figs.”

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343. “Sometimes I feel like a funny-looking rock in the middle of the most beautiful clear ocean when I read the kinds of things you write to me. You love so much bigger than yourself, bigger than everything. I can’t believe how lucky I am to even witness it – to be the one who gets to have it, and so much of it, is beyond luck and feels like fate. Catholic God made me to be the person you write those things about. I’ll say five Hail Marys. Muchas gracias, Santa Maria.”

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344. “Henry’s smiling so wide and bright that Alex thinks his heart’s going to break trying to hold the size of this entire moment, the completeness of it, a thousand years of history swelling inside his rib cage.”

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345. “Something else might come forward,” he says, lighting another match with total nonchalance as if he has not just suggested some unknown force from the great beyond could Beetlejuice into the room and rub its little demon hands all over them. “It happens. If you open a door, anything can come through it. But it’ll be fine.”

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

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347. “You take care of yourself, and that’s important,” her mom says. “And you don’t hurt anyone.” “But I do hurt people,” Chloe insists. “Do you do it on purpose?” “No.” “Okay, then, you’re human.”

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348. “All frogs do is eat bugs that we hate and mind their business. They don’t deserve all that. They’re literally just vibing.”

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

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350. “Many of the rooms in the White House have a similar hauntedness, a sense of history that hangs like cobwebs no matter how pristine the rooms are kept. He’s used to sleeping alongside ghosts, but that’s not it.”

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