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“Jane is spun sugar. A switchblade girl with a cotton-candy heart.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“It's hazy but she remembers Jane telling her about drag shows she used to go to in the '70s, the balls, how queens would go hungry for weeks to buy gowns, the shimmering nightclubs that sometimes felt like the only safe places.
She lets Jane's memories transpose over here, now, like double exposed film, two different generations of messy, loud, brave and scared and brave again people stomping their feet and waving hands with bitten nails, all the things they share and all the things they don't, the things she has that people like Jane smashed windows and spat blood for.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Maybe no good timing means there's no bad timing either.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“You're movies and destiny and every stupid, impossible thing, and it's not because of the fucking train. It's because you fight and you care, and you're always kind but never easy.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop