Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Alex, you need other friends.” Luna tells him. “Friends who aren’t in Congress.”

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

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303. “Stop thinking.” “Yes. Gladly.”

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304. “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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305. “But I’ve kissed your mouth, that corner, that place it goes, so many times now. I’ve memorised it. Topography on the map of you, a world I’m still charting. I know it. I added it to the key. Here: inches to miles. I can multiply it out, read your latitude and longitude. Recite your coordinates like la rosaria.”

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

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307. “No booty calls,′ Alex tells him, and Henry chokes on a laugh.”

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308. “I majored in nouns.”

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309. “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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310. “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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311. “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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312. “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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313. “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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314. “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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315. “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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316. “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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317. “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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318. “5. All the things I understand about myself now because of you.”

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319. “Oh my God,” Chloe says out loud. Her brain is overheating, probably. “I’m in love with a monster turducken.”

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320. “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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321. “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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322. “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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323. “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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324. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “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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328. “God Save the Queen.”

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

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

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

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333. “Get a clarifying shampoo and suck it up, Kylo Ren.”

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334. “Well, I did go to uni. It just wasn’t necessarily the reading that did it.”

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335. “Hey, Coffee Girl.”

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336. “August sits on the edge of an air mattress in Brooklyn and tries to imagine how it would feel if she didn’t have any of those memories to understand what made her who she is. If she woke up one day and just was and didn’t know why.”

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337. “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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338. “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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339. “Can you please sit down?” Zahra says after twenty minutes of watching him twitch around the cabin. “You’re giving my ulcer an ulcer.”

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340. “August takes note after note and finds it almost funny – that all the fighting only conspired to make Jane gentle. Fearsome and flirty and full of bad jokes, an incorrigible sweet tooth and a steel-toe boot as a last resort. That, August is learning, is Jane.”

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341. “It lasts only a minute or two, but it feels like a year lost in Jane’s hair and Jane’s lips and Jane’s past, Jane’s hands fisting in her curls, Jane’s thigh warm and steady under her, Jane for hours, Jane for days. It pulls like an undertow, and the case is up on the surface, and August is trying to stay there too.”

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342. “Shara’s cheeks going pinker and pinker with quiet anger the more Chloe recited without glancing at the page.”

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343. “Shara doesn’t throw things away because they mean nothing to her. She throws things away because they mean too much.”

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344. “Er,” Henry says, adding to the list of vowel sounds he has to show for himself. It is, unfortunately, also sexy. After all these weeks, the bar is low.”

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345. “She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough.”

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346. “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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347. “His dad wasn’t wrong about how ugly things would get with Richards leading the ticket. Utah ugly, Christian ugly, ugliness couched in dog whistles and toothy white smiles. Right-wing think pieces about entitlement thrown in his and June’s direction, reeking of: Mexicans stole the First Family jobs too.”

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348. “Is this what it’s always like? To want someone and know they want you back? How in the world does anyone get anything done?”

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

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