Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Another person knows what you taste like now,” Blue said.”

— Grady Hendrix

152. “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

153. “I’ll come right out and say it,” Mercy told them. “Strange noises, bad vibes, your mom and dad recently passed – Your house.”

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154. “Were they really discussing the differences between fried chicken cooked by two women who’d died decades ago? She felt like she wasn’t.”

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

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156. “I know you don’t like me because I’m not successful enough for you,” Mark said. “But I’m actually happy with my life. People like me. They think I’m a nice guy.”

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157. “There were so many dolls in there, waiting for her. Somewhere, in a less rational part of her brain, Louise felt that nothing could look so human and exist for so long without starting to develop thoughts on its own. What did the dolls think about?”

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158. “She had brown eyes, and I found them and held them with mine, and she instinctively looked away; then she looked back, then she stopped moving and looked at me with a very faint smile on her lips. We looked at each other until it was obvious what was going on, and then we looked a little longer.”

— Grady Hendrix

159. “But if there was one thing she was learning it was that she could endure anything, even the unendurable.”

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160. “She made a mental note.”

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161. “I’ll come right out and say it,” Mercy told them. “Strange noises, bad vibes, your mom and dad recently passed – Your house is haunted and I’m not selling it until you deal with that.”

— Grady Hendrix

162. “Skye and I will be heroes. People will be talking about the statement we made here for years to come. You’re just pointless nostalgia and we’re here to sweep you into the trash. Everyone needs to stop clinging to the past.”

— Grady Hendrix

163. “Does it make you feel superior to give them a diagnosis, to file them away in a little drawer? You know they’re bigger than that. If it were just a psychological problem we could find a cure.”

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164. “Yeah,” he says, loudly. “But you keep dwelling on it. I mean, Mom says this happened, like, a hundred years ago. You could move on.”

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165. “We’re not a lynch mob, we’re a book club,” Kitty said.”

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166. “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.”

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167. “And Marilyn and Heather and Dr. Carol probably hate me because they think I’ve committed the one sin we can’t forgive: lying down with your monster. They all think I’m another Chrissy Mercer.”

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168. “You’re right,” I say. “None of us have to be defined by the worst thing that ever happened to her. Unfortunately, those things have a bad habit of coming back and trying to kill us again. After a while, you start to realize that your life isn’t the thing that happens between the monsters, your life is the monsters.”

— Grady Hendrix

169. “Work burns the sickness from a man’s mind,” Warden Worth proclaimed. “It is the philosopher’s stone that transmutes the base metal of deviancy into the pure gold of obedience.”

— Grady Hendrix

170. “He looked like a grenade with the pin pulled.”

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171. “Because that’s exactly what he is,” Mercy said, coming out of the kitchen with a wine bottle and a bunch of iced tea glasses. “He’s thirty-seven years old and still works in a bar.”

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172. “I realize it has everything to do with Pupkin. I saw him move. He tried to kill you. Those dolls in the bathroom wrote that note on the wall, but the one who’s behind everything is that creepy little puppet.” It suddenly sounded.”

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173. “It didn’t matter what she did. Nothing mattered anymore. The world was broken.”

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174. “Share the joke?” the waitress asked, clonking two coffee cups down on their table. “Been on since five and I could use a laugh.” “None of this is real,” Louise said. The waitress set down a little crockery bowl of nondairy creamer. “I hope not,” she said, pouring coffee.”

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175. “Louise tried to think of how to explain death to a puppet.”

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176. “She was having a nervous breakdown in Waffle House.”

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177. “I always tried to protect you from yourself,′ he said, and put on his sunglasses. She hated him for timing the move so perfectly.”

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178. “She promised herself that she was not going to cry. They could take her job, but they would not take her dignity.”

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179. “Why is it always bitches, Kitty thought. As if men believed that word had some kind of magic power.”

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180. “Nothing was strong enough to stand against the passage of time.”

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181. “Time only moves in one direction no matter how hard we wish it wasn’t so.”

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182. “Some people use literature to understand their lives,” James Harris said, continuing to stare at Korey, who squirmed beneath the intensity of his gaze. “What are you reading?”

— Grady Hendrix

183. “No one likes their children,” Maryellen said. “We love them to death, but we don’t like them.”

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184. “Does it hurt?” I ask. “Getting shot in the legs?” she asks. “What, because I’m paralyzed? You think it doesn’t hurt? Here’s an idea, Lynnette. Why don’t you go get shot in something you don’t use, like your head, and report back, okay? Jesus Christ. Dr. Carol told me you’d had a breakdown.”

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185. “I’m an atheist,” Mark said. “Pish,” Aunt Gail said, dismissing him. “You’re a Presbyterian, just like your parents.”

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186. “How many times had she stood at a party or in the supermarket, talking about someone’s child being slow, or their baby being ugly, and that person appeared out of nowhere and she smiled in their face and said, I was just thinking about you and that cute baby of yours, and they never had a clue.”

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187. “Orsk is all about scripted disorientation. The store wants you to surrender to a programmed shopping experience. The Cuyahoga Panopticon was the same thing. The warden believed he could cure a criminal brain using forced labor, mindless repetition, and total surveillance. This was back when people believed that architecture could be designed to generate a psychological effect.”

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188. “I know exactly what you need,” Mark said. – “Welcome to Waffle House,” the waitress said, coming over to their back corner booth and stopping short.”

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189. “Of course she can,” Ian said. “I don’t want to sound critical, but you just dropped the entire concept of death on her and left me here to clean up the mess. It didn’t get better when you told her you were coming back early, then changed your mind.”

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190. “Louise swore to herself that she would not cry. Her mother had arranged this entire performance to humiliate her, and she would not cry.”

— Grady Hendrix

191. “I don’t have a therapist,” Louise said. “That explains a lot.” “You’re doing it again! I don’t need relationship advice from a grown man who works in a bar and believes in ghosts.”

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192. “She knew their names, she had seen her mom make every single one of them, she’d used some of them to perform her mom’s shows, and they had been happy for so long, and warm, and safe, and cared for, and now they had lost their creator and grief had twisted them into the deranged thing and she didn’t want to do this.”

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193. “Every kid has the same question for their parents: who do you love more? Your parents could dodge that question all their lives, they could avoid it for years, but eventually, one way or another, the answer came out.”

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194. “What had been destroyed made what remained that much more precious. That much more solid. That much more important.”

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195. “You ladies read a strange assortment of books,” James Harris said. “We’re a strange assortment of broads,” Kitty replied.”

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196. “There are only six of us still around. It used to make me sad there weren’t more of us out there, but we were creatures of the eighties and the world has moved on.”

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197. “How dare Marilyn slight her honor? How can she possibly suggest that the solemn word of a junkie who has smoked, snorted, and shot up every chemical on the planet is not legally binding? How dare Marilyn imply that Heather’s word is not the verbal equivalent of an ironclad contract.”

— Grady Hendrix

198. “Trinity was one of those happy, super-popular, high-energy girls who reminded Amy of the creatures from Gremlins: she was fun for about half an hour, then you wanted to stuff her in a blender.”

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199. “This isn’t girl power,” I say, panic-talking now. “You’re Skye’s puppet. In court your lawyer’s going to claim emotional coercion. You weren’t responsible for your actions. The man was in charge all the way. You’ll be just another victim of a powerful, manipulative male.”

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200. “It’s not too clever for a girl to be clever,’ and they laugh at us and think we only care about our hair. The only books they give us are cookbooks because in their minds we are silly, lightweight know-nothings. And you’ve just proven them right.”

— Grady Hendrix