Casey McQuiston Quotes

Casey McQuiston

Casey McQuiston is an American author of romance novels in the New adult fiction genre. (Casey McQuiston Quotes)

“Alex makes a mental note to figure out which shadowy gay noble taught Henry all this and send the man a fruit basket.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“Anybody who says punk isn’t queer doesn’t know what punk is.”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“As your mother, I can appreciate that maybe this isn’t your fault, but as the president, all I want is to have the CIA fake your death and ride the dead-kid sympathy into a second term.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“Because you’re it, okay? I’m never gonna love anybody in the world like I love you.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“Bisexuality is truly a rich and complex tapestry.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“But the first time I saw you. Rio. I took that down to the gardens. I pressed it into the leaves of a silver maple and recited it to the Waterloo Vase. It didn’t fit in any rooms.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“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”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It’s good. Even when it’s bad, it’s good.”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“Every person who bears a legacy makes the choice of a partner with whom they will share it with, whom the American people will hold beside them in hearts and memories and history books. America: He is my choice.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“Give yourself away sometimes, sweetheart, There’s so much of you.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“He called Henry the North Star once. That wasn’t bright enough.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“He kisses Henry until it feels like he can’t breathe, until it feels like he’s going to forget both of their names and titles, until they’re only two people tangled up in a dark room making a brilliant, epic, unstoppable mistake.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“He wants to match the new freckles along Henry’s nose to the stars above them and make him name the constellations.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“He wants to set himself on fire, but he can’t afford for anyone to see him burn.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“Henry lets Alex take him apart with painstaking patience and precision, moans the name of God so many times that the room feels consecrated.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“Henry looks Philip square in the face and says, “I’ve been gay as a maypole since the day I came out of Mum, Philip.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“Hey, have I told you lately that you’re brave? I still remember what you said to that little girl in the hospital about Luke Skywalker. ‘He’s proof that it doesn’t matter where you come from or who your family is.’ Sweetheart, you’re proof too.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“How does she explain that she used to be afraid to love anyone because there’s a well at the center of her chest and she doesn’t know where the bottom is?”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“I am the First Son of the United States, and I’m bisexual. History will remember us.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“I fell in love with you the day that I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice. That’s— that’s magic. You’re the first thing I’ve believed in since— since I don’t even remember, okay, you’re— you’re movies and destiny and every stupid, impossible thing, and it’s not because of the train, it’s because of you. It’s because you fight and you care and you’re always kind but never easy, and you won’t let anything take that away from you. You’re my hero, Jane. I don’t care if you think you’re not one. You are.”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

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

“If they’re gonna kill you, get their DNA under your fingernails.”
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One Last Stop

“It doesn’t feel like a Friday that should change everything. It’s the same as every Friday.”
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One Last Stop

“It was never a crush, if she’s being honest, not since she started planning her mornings around a girl she didn’t even know.”
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One Last Stop

“Jane is spun sugar. A switchblade girl with a cotton-candy heart.”
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One Last Stop

“Just because you can’t run doesn’t mean you can make me do it for you”
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One Last Stop

“Maybe I don’t know what fills it in yet, but I can look at the space around where I sit in the world, what creates that shape, and I can care about what it’s made of, if it’s good, if it hurts anyone, it makes people happy, if it makes me happy. And that can be enough for now.”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“Never before had there been a prince quite like him: born with his heart on the outside of his body.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“New York takes from her, sometimes. But she takes too. She takes its muggy air in fistfuls, and she packs it into the cracks in her heart.”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“Nobody tells you how those nights that stand out in your memory—levee sunset nights, hurricane nights, first kiss nights, homesick sleepover nights, nights when you stood at your bedroom window and looked at the lilies one porch over and thought they would stand out, singular and crystallized, in your memory forever—they aren’t really anything. They’re everything, and they’re nothing. They make you who you are, and they happen at the same time a twenty-three-year-old a million miles away is warming up some leftovers, turning in early, switching off the lamp. They’re so easy to lose.”
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One Last Stop

“Of course I love you. I could go back in time and have a whole life and get old and never see you again, and you would still be it. You were— you are the love of my life.” (Casey McQuiston Quotes)
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“One does not foster a lifelong love of Star Wars without knowing an “empire” isn’t a good thing.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“She doesn’t plant a seed of friendship and tend to it with gentle watering and sunlight. She drops into your life, fully formed, and just is. A friend in completion”
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One Last Stop

“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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One Last Stop

“She wants somewhere to belong, things that hold the shape of her body even when she’s not touching them, a place and a purpose and a happy, familiar routine. She wants to be happy. To be well.”
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One Last Stop

“Should I tell you that when we’re apart, your body comes back to me in dreams? That when I sleep, I see you, the dip of your waist, the freckle above your hip, and when I wake up in the morning, it feels like I’ve just been with you, the phantom touch of your hand on the back of my neck fresh and not imagined? That I can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache? That, for a few moments, I can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all?”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“Someone else’s choice doesn’t change who you are.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

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

“Sometimes the point is to be sad, August. Sometimes you just have to feel it because it deserves to be felt.”
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One Last Stop

“Sometimes you have a fire under your ass for no good goddamn reason. You’re gonna burn out like this.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“Sometimes you just jump and hope it’s not a cliff.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“Straight people, he thinks, probably don’t spend this much time convincing themselves that they’re straight.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“Take anything you want and know you deserve to have it.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“That’s the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“The class is Ethical Issues in International Relations. He really has got to stop taking classes so painfully relevant to his life.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue

“The moment you first called me a prick, my fate was sealed. O, fathers of my bloodline! O, ye kings of olde! Take this crown from me, bury me in my ancestral soil. If only you had known the mighty work of thine loins would be undone by a gay heir who likes it when American boys with chin dimples are mean to him.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“The next slide is titled: ‘Exploring your sexuality: Healthy, but does it have to be with the Prince of England?’ She apologizes for not having time to come up with better titles. Alex actively wishes for the sweet release of death.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“The older she’s gotten, the more she prefers thinking of love as a hobby for other people, like rock climbing or knitting. Fine, enviable even, but she doesn’t feel like investing in the equipment.”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“The phrase ‘see attached bibliography’ is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“There aren’t perfect moments in life, not really, not when shit has gotten as weird as it can get and you’re broke in a mean city and the things that hurt feel so big. But there’s the wind flying and the weight of months and a girl hanging out an emergency exit, train roaring all around, tunnel lights flashing, and it feels perfect.”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“This is the city where she got her heart broken. Nothing anchors a person to a place quite like that.”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“To every person in search of somewhere to belong who happened to pick up this book, I hope you found a place in here, even if just for a few pages. You are loved. I wrote this for you. Keep fighting, keep making history, keep looking after one another.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“Truth is, when you spend your whole life alone, it’s incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in, where being alone looks like a choice”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“Turns out he blocked me on social media because he ‘couldn’t stand to see how I’m doing’ without him. Which, I mean, fair. A bitch is doing spectacularly.”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“When you rang me at truly shocking hours of the night, I loved you. When you kissed me in disgusting public toilets and pouted in hotel bars and made me happy in ways in which it had never even occurred to me that a mangled-up, locked-up person like me could be happy, I loved you.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“When you spend your whole life alone, it’s incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in. Where being alone looks like a choice.”
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“You are the thistle in the tender and sensitive arise crack of my life.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“You are”, he says, “the absolute worst idea I’ve ever had.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue

“You can try, she guesses. You can tear yourself apart and rebuild from stratch, bring yourself to every corner of the map, sew a new self from the scraps of a thousand other people and places. You can try to escape to fill a different shape. But at the end of the day, there’s a place at the foot of the bed where your shoes hit the floor, and it’s the same. It’s always the same.” (Casey McQuiston Quotes)
Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop

“You gotta put in a little more work to crack this egg, baby.”
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One Last Stop

“You need to get back to England now, and if anyone sees you leave, I will personally end you. Ask me if I’m afraid of the crown.”
Casey McQuiston
Red, White and Royal Blue