Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Dogs are good and often form armies to assist humans fighting Satan, whereas cats can go either way.”

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52. “The problem was the liars. They said she could do anything she set her mind to, they told her she should shoot for the moon because if she missed she’d be among the stars, they made movies tricking her into thinking she could achieve heroic things. All lies. Because she was born to answer phones in call centers, to carry bags to customers’ cars, to punch a clock, to measure her life in smoke breaks. To think otherwise was insane.”

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

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

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55. “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.”

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

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57. “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.”

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

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

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

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61. “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.”

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62. “Focus on the real things in your life and I promise you’ll feel better.”

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

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

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

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66. “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.”

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67. “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.”

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68. “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!”

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69. “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.”

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70. “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.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “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.”

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73. “NOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO!”

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74. “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.”

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

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76. “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.”

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

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78. “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.”

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

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

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81. “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.”

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82. “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.”

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

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84. “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.”

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85. “In every book we read, no one ever thought anything bad was happening until it was too late. This is where we live, it’s where our children live, it’s our home. Don’t you want to do absolutely everything you can to keep it safe?”

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86. “Her parents are the ones who sold the prom dress,” I say. “Sometimes you need the money more than you need to live with yourself.”

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87. “Like most elementary schoolteachers, Miss Mary had drunk from the fountain of eternal late middle age;.”

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88. “Out there in the world it’s a nonstop murder party, and if I make the slightest mistake I’ll wind up dead.”

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89. “That’s enough for you? Continued respiration? That’s all you have to offer to the world? There’s more to life than staying alive.”

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90. “Abby’s guts were so full of stomach acid, her burps could etch steel.”

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

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92. “Every story begins in blood: a squalling baby yanked from the womb, bathed in mucus and half a quart of their mother’s blood. But not many stories end in blood these days. Usually it’s a return to the hospital and a dry, quiet death surrounded by machines after a heart attack in the driveway, a stroke on the back porch, or a slow fade from lung cancer.”

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

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94. “She’s a final girl. Keith can’t do anything to her; he has to save himself for you. She has her own monster.” Chrissy shakes her head and smiles. “This isn’t a religion,” she says. “It’s not like Keith’s going to Hell if he goes off his diet.”

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95. “Same with puppets. Put one on and your posture changes, your voice alters, and you can feel what it wants, you can feel what it’s scared of, you know what it needs. You don’t wear the puppet. The puppet wears you.”

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96. “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.”

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97. “I know this is your religion, but for me it’s just a job.”

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98. “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.”

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99. “She didn’t want to smell Yankee Candle and carpet cleaner and dust anymore.”

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100. “We tend to die, women who’ve been through the fire. Sometimes we choose obvious ways, suicide and overdoses; sometimes we’re more subtle, marrying someone who likes to use his fists, or we drink too much and keep getting behind the wheel until we run out of luck.”

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