Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Every time something terrible happens to you from then on, it doesn’t just stop at the bottom – it goes all the way down.”

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352. “Henry to download Snapchat.”

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353. “It sounds like you did your best.”

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354. “She barely has time to finish before Anderson Cooper is back onscreen with breaking news. Alex wonders briefly what it’s going to be like to have future Anderson Cooper stress hallucinations.”

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355. “From the moment I arrived at Willow Grove, I was confident I would spend the next 4 years of my high school career counting the days until I could escape this place, which has the spiritual aura of a Mountain Dew bottle filled with dip spit in the tour bus cup holder of a Christian Rock Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band.”

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356. “I wanted to see the world but still have one thing that was mine.”

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357. “I mean, I can’t just jump into the twenty-first century without knowing how the wifey works – ” “Wi-Fi.”

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358. “Bad thing – Mom, I saw the new art in the hall on the second floor, and I need to know why you allowed a George W. Bush terrier painting in our home.”

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359. “She sounds like she’s vision-boarding his funeral.”

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360. “Kind of,” she says. And, “Pull my hair.” For a few ringing seconds, August imagines herself melting onto the floor of the train like the ghosts of a million spilled subway slushies and dropped ice cream cones. Completely under control.”

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361. “The hottest girl August has ever seen just took one look at her and said, “Yikes.”

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362. “Here they are. Two sets of sneakers on a scrap of metal. Two girls in the middle of a hurricane, tearing down the line. She’s looking up at Jane, and Jane’s looking down at her, and August feels her everywhere, even the places she’s not touching, pressed close as the world roars on.”

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363. “Please don’t be stupid. No part of any of this will ever be uncomplicated. Anyway, you should be a writer. You are a writer.”

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364. “It’s impossible to know if he moves first or if Henry does, but they meet in the middle of the room, Henry’s arms around Alex’s neck, swallowing him up. If Henry’s voice on the phone was a tether, his body is the gravity that makes it possible, his hand gripping the back of Alex’s neck a magnetic force, a permanent compass north.”

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365. “But the minute you need something – like, actually need something- they’ll let you know just how much of a disappointment you are for asking.”

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366. “Of course I’m nervous, Nora, it’s a presidential election and the president gave birth to me.”

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367. “Sit down,” his mother tells him, and Alex feels dread coil deep in his stomach. He has no clue what to expect – knowing your parent as the person who raised you isn’t the same as being able to guess their moves as a world leader. He sits, and the silence hovers over them, his mother’s hands folded in a considering pose against her lips. She looks exhausted. “Are you okay?” she says finally. When he looks up in surprise, there’s no anger in her eyes.”

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368. “It was kind of about what his idea of beauty was. Especially women – he always painted women sort of flowing through space. Girls with an effortless sort of elegance, like they’re weightless and solid at the same time.”

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

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370. “He knows he would’ve chosen this life for himself given the option; he knows she wouldn’t have.”

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371. “Nothing. Ten long seconds of nothing. “Truly harrowing,” Henry’s voice says tinnily over the speaker.”

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372. “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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373. “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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374. “Shara’s cheeks going pinker and pinker with quiet anger the more Chloe recited without glancing at the page.”

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

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

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

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379. “Hey, Coffee Girl.”

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380. “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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381. “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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382. “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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383. “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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384. “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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385. “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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386. “August’s brain tries “hi” and her mouth goes for “morning” and what comes out is, “Horny.”

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

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389. “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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390. “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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391. “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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392. “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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393. “I want you to know I’m sure. A thousand percent.”

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

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395. “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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396. “Any number of lies can be manufactured and disseminated.”

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397. “Space and time are nothing.”

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398. “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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399. “Ferris Bueller.”

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

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