87 Quotes by Casey McQuiston

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.

Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.

He wants to set himself on fire, but he can’t afford for anyone to see him burn.

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.

Maybe no good timing means there's no bad timing either.

Tu amor es mucho más grande que tú mismo, más grande que todo. Me cuesta creer que haya tenido la suerte de presenciarlo siquiera, de ser el que ha conseguido tenerlo, y es tanto que deja de parecer una suerte y empieza a parecer destino.

Pensar en la historia hace preguntarme cómo encajaré un día, supongo. Y tú también. Ojalá la gente todavía escribiera así. Historia, ¿eh? Apuesto que podemos hacer un poco.

She was beautiful like a city you always wanted to go to, like how you wait years and years for the right time, and then as soon as you get there, you have to taste everything and touch everything and learn every street by name. I felt like I knew her. She reminded me who I was. She had soft lips and green eyes and a body that wouldn't quit. Hair like you wouldn't believe. Stubborn, sharp as a knife. And I never, ever wanted a person to save me until she did.

El derecho que tengo por nacimiento no es la felicidad, sino un país