Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “A reader lives many lives,” James Harris said. “The person who doesn’t read lives but one.”

— Grady Hendrix

52. “Work gives you a goal. It lets you build something that lives on after you’re gone. Work has a purpose beyond making money.”

— Grady Hendrix

53. “Did y’all do those earth science questions?” “Igneous rock, Trey,” Gretchen said. “It’s always igneous rock.”

— Grady Hendrix

54. “The devil is loud and brash and full of drama. God, He’s like a sparrow.”

— Grady Hendrix

55. “Dogs are good and often form armies to assist humans fighting Satan, whereas cats can go either way.”

— Grady Hendrix

56. “The only people who don’t apologize are psychopaths.”

— Grady Hendrix

57. “Men don’t have to pay attention the way we do. Men die because they make mistakes. Women? We die because we’re female. Look at Adrienne. No, look at their shoes. Memorize their faces, their clothing, their shoes. Especially their shoes.”

— Grady Hendrix

58. “NOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO!”

— Grady Hendrix

59. “By the power of Phil Collins, I rebuke you!”

— Grady Hendrix

60. “The line between being too careful and not being careful enough is a line you only get to cross once.”

— Grady Hendrix

61. “Everyone’s hungry for our children,” she said, and her voice cracked. “The whole world wants to gobble up colored children and no matter how many it takes it just licks its lips and wants more.”

— Grady Hendrix

62. “An image of Ted Bundy with his arm in a fake cast asking Brenda Ball to help him carry his books to his car flashed across Patricia’s mind. She dismissed it as undignified.”

— Grady Hendrix

63. “Amy would honor the first commandment of keeping her job: Do not look like an idiot in front of anyone who can fire you.”

— Grady Hendrix

64. “Even after everything that came later, when everything in her life hurt, the memory of those nights wrapped her in a soft, sweet glow that often carried her away to sleep.”

— Grady Hendrix

65. “Sweetheart,” she said, “I once battled a warlock in Summerville. There is nothing you can say that will shock me.”

— Grady Hendrix

66. “Isn’t the point of therapy that one day you don’t need it anymore?”

— Grady Hendrix

67. “Be strong, trust in the Lord, and stay hydrated.”

— Grady Hendrix

68. “Automatonophobia is the name smug people who’ve never been chased by witch marionettes give to the irrational fear of inanimate objects that resemble human beings: puppets, robots, mannequins, dolls.”

— Grady Hendrix

69. “The most expressive parts of her body are her nipples. They noticeably harden when she is aroused, surprised, confused or meeting new people. They are practically prehensile tentacles, capable of lengthening, thickening, unfurling, budding, flaring and swelling.”

— Grady Hendrix

70. “If baseball’s a sin, I’m going to Hell,” Kitty said.”

— Grady Hendrix

71. “Trust me,” I say. “I’ve seen things that make your porn look like Dora the Explorer.”

— Grady Hendrix

72. “She had nothing. Except her music.”

— Grady Hendrix

73. “Women get birth, so men must settle for death. And they’ve become experts on the subject.”

— Grady Hendrix

74. “Murder is man’s attempt to steal birth from women,” she says. “We make children, they kill them. We create life, they create death. It’s the way it’s always been.”

— Grady Hendrix

75. “Horse says we’re safe with his guns, but trust me, I’ve been dove hunting with that man. He can barely hit the sky.”

— Grady Hendrix

76. “Sometimes,” he said, “when I’m shifting steel and sweating blood and I don’t think I’m going to make the clean and jerk, or when I’m stuck on the hang and can’t get the snatch, suddenly I’ll feel lighter, like someone has taken my load. And that’s when I look up and I say, ‘That was you, God. Thank you! Thank you for taking my load!”

— Grady Hendrix

77. “There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind. The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough.”’ Proverbs 30:15.”

— Grady Hendrix

78. “The final girl and the monster are two sides of one person. Think about it. One runs fast, and screams, and is resourceful, and fights for her friends. The other is slow, and implacable, and silent, and he kills, and is alone.”

— Grady Hendrix

79. “To Amanda – It turns out that you did not weigh the same as a feather when thrown from a great height. My saddest day – yet what a victory for science.”

— Grady Hendrix

80. “A puppet is a device for driving the personality out of the body and allowing a spirit to take control... Puppets have no freedom, but they give the puppeteer freedom. They have no life, but they live forever.”

— Grady Hendrix

81. “Sometimes you need the money more than you need to live with yourself.”

— Grady Hendrix

82. “I am not sure what the appropriate gesture is to make toward the family of the woman who bit off your ear, but if you felt absolutely compelled, I certainly wouldn’t take food.”

— Grady Hendrix

83. “When you don’t like the way a conversation is going you deflect with personal attacks. You’re like some kind of emotionally abusive octopus entangling everyone in your word tentacles.” “You should talk to your therapist about your choices of imagery,” Mark said. “Pipe organs, octopuses – it’s very revealing.”

— Grady Hendrix

84. “Sometimes you don’t know why you’re doing anything anymore so you just keep moving even though you’re out of options.”

— Grady Hendrix

85. “She and Gretchen spent hours ranking their friendships, trying to determine who was a best friend and who was an everyday friend, debating whether anyone could have two best friends at the same time, writing each other’s names over and over in purple ink, buzzed on the dopamine high of belonging to someone else, having a total stranger choose you, someone who wanted to know you, another person who cared that you were alive.”

— Grady Hendrix

86. “The point is, you act like you know everything about everyone but you don’t listen to anybody. You just talk at people and tell them what to do.”

— Grady Hendrix

87. “You don’t want someone angry at you, especially a man, so you say yes to things you don’t want to do because there’s no road map for where you are, nothing to guide you except a neon sign in your head that says Do not make men angry.”

— Grady Hendrix

88. “I don’t relax until I’m on a city bus. On the street, anyone can come at you from any direction. On the bus, there are limited angles of attack. They’re advertising a horror movie overhead and the red signs makes me think of Adrienne, but I need to stay focused. Some boys with instrument cases sit at the back, heads bowed, engrossed in something on one of their phones. Men don’t have to pay attention the way we do. Men die because they make mistakes. Women? We die because we’re female.”

— Grady Hendrix

89. “Dying isn’t the important thing. It’s nothing more than the punctuation mark on the end of your life. It’s everything that came before that matters. Punctuation marks, most people skip right over them. They don’t even have a sound.”

— Grady Hendrix

90. “These stuffed animals were how she had first learned to love something that couldn’t always love you back.”

— Grady Hendrix

91. “Books can inspire you to love yourself more, it said. By listening to, writing out, or verbally expressing your feelings.”

— Grady Hendrix

92. “How many other plans have I made based on wrong information?”

— Grady Hendrix

93. “That’s your vanity talking,” she told me. “You just want to be special. Let me tell you something: no one is too far gone to be brought back. No one is too lost to be found. No one.”

— Grady Hendrix

94. “Her one job as a parent was to protect her children from monsters. The ones under the bed, the ones in the closet, the ones hiding in the dark. Instead, she’d invited the monster into her home and been too weak to stop it from taking whatever it wanted.”

— Grady Hendrix

95. “Because you’re real, Pupkin,” Louise said. “And nothing real can last forever. That’s how you know you’re real. Because one day you die.”

— Grady Hendrix

96. “Creation and destruction, female and male, life and death, birth and murder.”

— Grady Hendrix

97. “I don’t believe in coincidence. The universe always has a plan. It’s our job to perceive it.”

— Grady Hendrix

98. “Each of us has a monster we must confront, a monster designed to test our personal weaknesses. And in the end, they bring about our deaths. Not literal death, but death as the conclusion of this phase and the beginning of another. Death is the harbinger of transformation, that which precedes a new life.”

— Grady Hendrix

99. “Being a teenager isn’t a number,” Maryellen said. “It’s the age when you stop liking them.” “You don’t like the girls?” Patricia asked. “No one likes their children,” Maryellen said. “We love them to death, but we don’t like them.”

— Grady Hendrix

100. “It’s degrading to watch the woman who hauled us back from the brink reduced to the status of waitress for her children. Eventually they won’t have their mother to be their short-order cook and laundress and maid. They’ll have to trick some poor woman into marrying them to get all that for free again.”

— Grady Hendrix