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“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 & Royal Blue

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

“What do you want?"
"I want you—"
"Then fucking have me.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“And then I was a careless fool, and I fell in love with you anyway. 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 occured to me that a mangled-up, locked-up person like me could be happy, I loved you.

And then, inexplicably, you had the absolute audacity to love me back. Can you believe it?”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“History, huh?”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Give yourself away sometimes, sweetheart, There's so much of you.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“God, I want to fight everyone who's ever hurt you, but it was me too, wasn't it? All that time.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Here,' Alex says, moving his own hips, 'watch me.'
With a grave gulp of champagne, Henry says, 'I am.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Alex wonders for an insane second if his brain has conjured up some kind of stress-induced sex mirage,”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Shut up,” Alex yells, cutting off whatever else Henry was saying, “shut your dumb face, this is my shit!”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue