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“Alex makes a mental note to figure out which shadowy gay noble taught Henry all this and send the man a fruit basket.” (Red, White and Royal Blue Quotes)
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Red, White and Royal Blue
“As your mother, I can appreciate that maybe this isn’t your fault, but as the president, all I want is to have the CIA fake your death and ride the dead-kid sympathy into a second term.”
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“Because you’re it, okay? I’m never gonna love anybody in the world like I love you.”
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“Bisexuality is truly a rich and complex tapestry.”
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“But the first time I saw you. Rio. I took that down to the gardens. I pressed it into the leaves of a silver maple and recited it to the Waterloo Vase. It didn’t fit in any rooms.”
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“But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable.”
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“Every person who bears a legacy makes the choice of a partner with whom they will share it with, whom the American people will hold beside them in hearts and memories and history books. America: He is my choice.”
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“Give yourself away sometimes, sweetheart, There’s so much of you.”
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“He called Henry the North Star once. That wasn’t bright enough.”
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“He kisses Henry until it feels like he can’t breathe, until it feels like he’s going to forget both of their names and titles, until they’re only two people tangled up in a dark room making a brilliant, epic, unstoppable mistake.”
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“He wants to match the new freckles along Henry’s nose to the stars above them and make him name the constellations.”
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“He wants to set himself on fire, but he can’t afford for anyone to see him burn.”
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“Henry lets Alex take him apart with painstaking patience and precision, moans the name of God so many times that the room feels consecrated.”
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“Henry looks Philip square in the face and says, “I’ve been gay as a maypole since the day I came out of Mum, Philip.”
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“Hey, have I told you lately that you’re brave? I still remember what you said to that little girl in the hospital about Luke Skywalker. ‘He’s proof that it doesn’t matter where you come from or who your family is.’ Sweetheart, you’re proof too.” (Red, White and Royal Blue Quotes)
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“I am the First Son of the United States, and I’m bisexual. History will remember us.”
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“Never before had there been a prince quite like him: born with his heart on the outside of his body.”
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“One does not foster a lifelong love of Star Wars without knowing an “empire” isn’t a good thing.”
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“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?”
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“Someone else’s choice doesn’t change who you are.”
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“Sometimes you have a fire under your ass for no good goddamn reason. You’re gonna burn out like this.”
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“Sometimes you just jump and hope it’s not a cliff.”
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“Straight people, he thinks, probably don’t spend this much time convincing themselves that they’re straight.”
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“Take anything you want and know you deserve to have it.”
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“That’s the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
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“The class is Ethical Issues in International Relations. He really has got to stop taking classes so painfully relevant to his life.”
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“The moment you first called me a prick, my fate was sealed. O, fathers of my bloodline! O, ye kings of olde! Take this crown from me, bury me in my ancestral soil. If only you had known the mighty work of thine loins would be undone by a gay heir who likes it when American boys with chin dimples are mean to him.”
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Red, White and Royal Blue
“The next slide is titled: ‘Exploring your sexuality: Healthy, but does it have to be with the Prince of England?’ She apologizes for not having time to come up with better titles. Alex actively wishes for the sweet release of death.”
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“The phrase ‘see attached bibliography’ is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.”
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“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.” (Red, White and Royal Blue Quotes)
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“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.”
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“When you rang me at truly shocking hours of the night, I loved you. When you kissed me in disgusting public toilets and pouted in hotel bars and made me happy in ways in which it had never even occurred to me that a mangled-up, locked-up person like me could be happy, I loved you.”
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“You are the thistle in the tender and sensitive arise crack of my life.”
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“You are”, he says, “the absolute worst idea I’ve ever had.”
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“You need to get back to fucking England now, and if anyone sees you leave, I will personally end you. Ask me if I’m afraid of the crown.”
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“You’ve been, like, Draco Malfoy–level obsessed with Henry for years.”
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