Casey McQuiston

both superhuman and heartbreakingly flesh and blood

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.”

I can love you and want you and still not want that life. I’m allowed

You’re—what are you doing here?”

“You know, as a figurehead of one of the most powerful countries in the world, I do manage to keep abreast on international politics.”

Alex raises an eyebrow.

Henry inclines his head, sheepish. “I sent Pez home without me because I was worried.”

“Get moving on that drink, Wales,” Alex says. “I got a king-size bed upstairs that’s calling my name.”

You’re literally putting your dick in the leader of a foreign state, who is a man, at

I’m never gonna love anybody in the world like I love you.

You and me and history, remember? We’re just gonna fucking fight.

One day, us too.

One day, us too.