Top 500 Casey McQuiston Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Part of being a Brooklyn institution, August has learned, is collecting all the New York strangeness at the end of the night like a pool filter full of june bugs.”

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402. “He looks transformed in the lamplight, like a god of debauchery, painted gold with his hair all mussed up and his eyes heavy-lidded.”

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403. “It’s freezing and Alex is only wearing his suit jacket, but his chest feels warmed from the inside with liquor and something heady his brain keeps stumbling over, trying to name.”

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404. “Re: telling Philip, sounds like a great plan. If all else fails, just do what I did and act like a huge jackass until most of your family figures it out on their own.”

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405. “I learned that survival is heavy on so many of us. And on a personal level, I realized I’d gotten so used to that weight, I stopped noticing how much of myself I’d dedicated to carrying it.”

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406. “He notices David Beckham in a well-tailored suit – once again, how had he convinced himself he was straight?”

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407. “Dear Freddie Mercury, when you wrote “Love of My Life,” did you mean for it to reach across space and time in a platonic way or a real-deal, break-your-heart, throw-you-up-against-a-wall type of way?”

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408. “The first time I let myself fall, it wasn’t hot at all. It was cold. January. There was ice on the sidewalks – at least, that’s what I’d heard. But this girl felt like nectarines and balconies to me. She felt like everything. She felt like a long winter, then a nervous spring, then a sticky summer, and then those last days you never thought you’d get to, the ones that spread themselves out, out, out until they feel like they go on forever. So, August is a person.”

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409. “Are you psychoanalyzing me?” Henry asks. “I don’t think royal guests are allowed to do that.”

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410. “I never, ever wanted a person to save me until she did.”

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411. “She links arms with Georgia to dance and sends up her only prayer of the past four years: May they always come back to each other.”

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412. “As usual, my duties as first gentleman are to work on my tablescapes and look pretty.”

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413. “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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414. “I observe patterns and data, and they form logical conclusions, and he’s just gay. He’s always been gay.”

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

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416. “Sometimes I imagine moving to New York to take over launching Pez’s youth shelter there. Just leaving. Not coming back. Maybe burning something down on the way out. It would be nice.”

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417. “Do you feel forever about him?”

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418. “Love God first, love Shara Wheeler second.”

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419. “I didn’t mean to remediate me!” “You’re kinda hot when you get all indignant.” “Can we focus?” Alex puts in.”

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420. “Crazy how August can imagine a whole life for this girl she doesn’t even know, but she’s can’t begin to picture what her own is supposed to look like.”

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421. “I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”

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422. “Maybe it’s that she’s starting to feel like an extra in an extremely low-budget Love Actually, surrounded by people loving and being loved in all their messy, unpredictable ways, and she doesn’t trust or understand it.”

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423. “Don’t miss it this time. He’s too important.”

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

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425. “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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426. “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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427. “I wanted to see the world but still have one thing that was mine.”

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

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

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

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

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434. “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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435. “See, this means I can’t possibly be into guys.”

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436. “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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437. “Henry to download Snapchat.”

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438. “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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439. “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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440. “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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441. “Of course I’m nervous, Nora, it’s a presidential election and the president gave birth to me.”

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442. “Anderson Cooper’s face looms on the screen like a disgustingly handsome Hunger Games cannon, announcing they’re ready to call Florida.”

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443. “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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444. “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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445. “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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446. “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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447. “Which means, of course, the next time August steps on the Q, Jane says, “I think I should kiss you.”

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

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

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

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