Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Holly

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Holly.


Before the Coffee...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 57 of 213)
Feb 02, 2026 02:37AM

 
Loading...
Casey McQuiston
“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

Casey McQuiston
“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

Casey McQuiston
“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

Casey McQuiston
“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
tags: bi, gay, lgbt

Casey McQuiston
“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

year in books
Olivia
230 books | 9 friends

Meaghan...
420 books | 13 friends

Molly S...
282 books | 10 friends

Felicit...
101 books | 12 friends

Jacob
10 books | 2 friends

Hannah
47 books | 2 friends

Amelie  S
157 books | 13 friends

Sophie
36 books | 4 friends


Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuistonPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Fault in Our Stars by John  GreenA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Best Books Ever
79,041 books — 294,525 voters




Polls voted on by Holly

Lists liked by Holly