Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “I want you to know I’m sure. A thousand percent.”

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352. “But isn’t there something to be valued in a happy ending as well?”

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353. “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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354. “Space and time are nothing.”

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355. “How was he supposed to know back then if he wanted to look like other guys, or if he wanted other guys?”

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356. “Ferris Bueller.”

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357. “I’m taking a picture of a gay landmark, and also a statue.”

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358. “Doing your part to keep the great American gossip industry alive?” “That’s what my journalism degree’s for,” June says.”

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359. “He remembers when he was a kid, freckly and unafraid, when the world seemed like it was blissfully endless but everything still made perfect sense.”

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360. “A warning light flashes somewhere in August’s brain. Her mental field guide to making friends is a two-page pamphlet that just says: DON’T.”

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361. “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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362. “August’s brain tries “hi” and her mouth goes for “morning” and what comes out is, “Horny.”

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363. “Like countless others, I was afraid to say this out loud because of what the consequences might be. To you, specifically, I say: I see you. I am one of you. I am and I am bisexual. History will remember us.”

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364. “Are they too drunk to communicate in English? He wonders distantly if Henry knows any Spanish.”

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

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366. “The man Henry remembers is both superhuman and heartbreakingly flesh and blood, a man who encompassed Henry’s entire childhood and charmed the world but was also simply a man.”

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367. “When I caught the stomach flu in the fifth grade, my mother sent a note to school written on the back of a holiday memo from Vice President Biden. Sorry, sir – we were in a rush, and it was the only paper she had on hand.”

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368. “He feels like he’s stepped outside of himself and returned to find everything slightly rearranged.”

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369. “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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370. “He smiles as he reaches for a frying pan, because he knows it’s exactly the kind of insane risk he can’t resist.”

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371. “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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372. “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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373. “How do you do all the good you can do?”

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374. “An idea can’t want you back. And I’m starting to think that was kind of the whole point.”

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375. “Okay,” he says. “I’m into making history.”

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376. “If Alex from this time last year could see this,” Alex says, leaning into Henry’s ear. “He’d say, ‘Oh, I’m in love with Henry? That must be why I’m such a berk to him all the time,’” Henry suggests.”

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

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

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379. “You think y’all are off the hook for institutional bigotry because you come from a blue state. Not every white supremacist is a meth-head from Bumfuck Mississippi. There are plenty of them at Duke or UPenn on Daddy’s money.”

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380. “Instead, he is in a prison of his own creation, sworn to babysit these turkeys until the pardoning ceremony, and is just now realizing his deep-seated fear of large birds.”

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381. “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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382. “Can’t you ever just do one thing without having to be so goddamn extra about it?”

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383. “Or she’s starting a new life with a man named Raoul. Or she left to get a nose job and is recuperating in a subterranean labyrinth beneath an opera house in France.”

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384. “She kept running because she never quite learned what home was supposed to feel like. That, especially, August can understand.”

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385. “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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386. “He doesn’t, he reminds himself, even have feelings for the guy. Really.”

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387. “His eyes are big and soft and blue, and he desperately needs to be punched in one of them.”

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388. “Chloe enters the choir room for lunch with a peanut butter sandwich in her lunch bag and murder in her heart.”

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389. “Everywhere I went, someone loved me. But everywhere I went, someone hated me.”

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390. “We can-we can figure out a way to do that together.”

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391. “Jane laughs, which is rocketing straight up August’s list of favorite sounds in the universe. She’s gonna trap it in a shell like a sea witch. It’s fine.”

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392. “Nothing like kissing anyone he’s ever kissed in his life. It feels as steady and huge as the ground under their feet, as encompassing of every part of him, as likely to knock the wind out of his lungs.”

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393. “How ’bout the new roommates?” “Fine. I mean, kind of weird. One of them claims to be a psychic. But I don’t think they’re, like, serial killers.” She hums, only half-listening. “Remember the rules. Number one – ” “Us versus everyone.” “And number two – ” “If they’re gonna kill you, get their DNA under your fingernails.” “Thatta girl,” she says.”

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394. “August lost everything and thought that maybe, if she could become someone who didn’t have anything to lose, she’d never have to feel that way again.”

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395. “I love him on purpose.”

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396. “How does she always know?” June mutters, scooping up the plate.”

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397. “She can’t imagine always knowing something huge about herself and never questioning it.”

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398. “To family,” Niko says. “And viva Puerto Rico libre.”

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399. “Her eyes are bright and teasing and warm, warm forever-and-ever brown, and August doesn’t know how she could possibly do anything but whatever this girl says.”

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400. “Oh, you have a choice, Mum,” Catherine says. “You’ve always had a choice. Perhaps today you’ll make the right one.”

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