Theo > Theo's Quotes

“Everything is a story, never finished.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Dear Thisbe,
I wish there weren’t a wall.
Love, Pyramus”
― 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

“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

“You see, for me, memories are difficult. Very often, they hurt. A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they’re inaccessible. You must invent an entirely new system.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Are you quite finished?" Henry says, sounding strangled. "Can you perhaps stop putting your sodding life in danger now?"

"Aw, you do care," Alex says. "I'm learning all your hidden depths today, sweetheart."

Henry exhales and slumps off him. "I can't believe even mortal peril will not prevent you from being the way you are.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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

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

“It sounds like you did your best.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Love is like a fairy tale, it would come sweeping into your life on the back of a dragon one day.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“All the things I understand about myself now because of you.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Awesome, fuckin' love doing things out of spite.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“He has the personality of a cabbage.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Nora breaks out into a shit-eating grin.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“I do hope you will forgive both my language and my utter lack of restraint: You are so fucking beautiful.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“You had the absolute audacity to love me back”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue