“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 & Royal Blue
“That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“I thought, this is the most incredible thing I have ever seen, and I had better keep it a safe distance away from me. I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire.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 occurred 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? Sometimes, even now, I still can't.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“You are", he says, "the absolute worst idea I've ever had.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“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 & Royal Blue
“History, huh?” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & 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 & Royal Blue
“The phrase 'see attached bibliography' is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“Someone else’s choice doesn’t change who you are.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“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 & Royal Blue
“Take anything you want and know you deserve to have it.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“So, imagine we’re all born with a set of feelings. Some are broader or deeper than others, but for everyone, there’s that ground floor, a bottom crust of the pie. That’s the maximum depth of feeling you’ve ever experienced. And then, the worst thing happens to you. The very worst thing that could have happened. The thing you had nightmares about as a child, and you thought, it’s all right because that thing will happen to me when I’m older and wiser, and I’ll have felt so many feelings by then that this one worst feeling, the worst possible feeling, won’t seem so terrible. “But it happens to you when you’re young. It happens when your brain isn’t even fully done cooking—when you’ve barely experienced anything, really. The worst thing is one of the first big things that ever happens to you in your life. It happens to you, and it goes all the way down to the bottom of what you know how to feel, and it rips it open and carves out this chasm down below to make room. And because you were so young, and because it was one of the first big things to happen in your life, you’ll always carry it inside you. Every time something terrible happens to you from then on, it doesn’t just stop at the bottom —it goes all the way down.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“He called Henry the North Star once. That wasn’t bright enough.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“History, huh? Bet we could make some.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“Alex snatches a shirt and boxers at random from the floor, shoves them at Henry's chest, and points him towards the closet. "Get in there.""Quite," he observes."Yes, we can unpack the ironic symbolism later. GO.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & 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 & Royal Blue
“That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“I thought, this is the most incredible thing I have ever seen, and I had better keep it a safe distance away from me. I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire.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 occurred 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? Sometimes, even now, I still can't.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“You are", he says, "the absolute worst idea I've ever had.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“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 & Royal Blue
“History, huh?” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & 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 & Royal Blue
“The phrase 'see attached bibliography' is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“Someone else’s choice doesn’t change who you are.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“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 & Royal Blue
“Take anything you want and know you deserve to have it.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“So, imagine we’re all born with a set of feelings. Some are broader or deeper than others, but for everyone, there’s that ground floor, a bottom crust of the pie. That’s the maximum depth of feeling you’ve ever experienced. And then, the worst thing happens to you. The very worst thing that could have happened. The thing you had nightmares about as a child, and you thought, it’s all right because that thing will happen to me when I’m older and wiser, and I’ll have felt so many feelings by then that this one worst feeling, the worst possible feeling, won’t seem so terrible. “But it happens to you when you’re young. It happens when your brain isn’t even fully done cooking—when you’ve barely experienced anything, really. The worst thing is one of the first big things that ever happens to you in your life. It happens to you, and it goes all the way down to the bottom of what you know how to feel, and it rips it open and carves out this chasm down below to make room. And because you were so young, and because it was one of the first big things to happen in your life, you’ll always carry it inside you. Every time something terrible happens to you from then on, it doesn’t just stop at the bottom —it goes all the way down.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“He called Henry the North Star once. That wasn’t bright enough.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“History, huh? Bet we could make some.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“Alex snatches a shirt and boxers at random from the floor, shoves them at Henry's chest, and points him towards the closet. "Get in there.""Quite," he observes."Yes, we can unpack the ironic symbolism later. GO.” ― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & 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 & Royal Blue
