Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Great,” Maryellen moaned. “Another man with his opinions.”

— Grady Hendrix

152. “Hitler said caffeine was poison,” Blue said.”

— Grady Hendrix

153. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

154. “She worried for a moment that she was confused again. Her judgement was thin ice and she hesitated to trust it. But this had been real. It wouldn’t hurt to make sure. After all, she was only a housewife. What else did she have to do?”

— Grady Hendrix

155. “Abby realized that no one was going to do anything. For five years, Gretchen had been the perfect Albemarle student, and the faculty still saw what they were used to seeing – not what was really happening.”

— Grady Hendrix

156. “Why can’t that one do it?” Miss Mary asked, jabbing a gnarled finger at Patricia. “Because you’re working that one’s last nerve,” Mrs. Greene said. “And if that one doesn’t get a break she’s liable to throw you off the roof.” Miss Mary thought about it for a minute, then said, “No one’s pushing me off any roof.” “Keep acting like that and I might help her,” Mrs. Greene said.”

— Grady Hendrix

157. “Once you’ve finish reading it, you’ve finished needing it” was her motto.”

— Grady Hendrix

158. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

159. “From sunup to sundown, the whole world felt flooded in boiling honey.”

— Grady Hendrix

160. “Marjorie Fretwell once sucked a copperhead up in her vacuum cleaner because she didn’t know what to do with it and then she had to throw the whole vacuum away,” Kitty said. “Don’t talk to me about Marjorie Fretwell.”

— Grady Hendrix

161. “Nightwalking men always have a hunger on them,” she croaked. “They never stop taking and they don’t know about enough. They mortgaged their souls away and now they eat and eat and never know how to stop.”

— Grady Hendrix

162. “She cried because at last it hit her that time only moves in one direction, no matter how hard we wish it wasn’t so.”

— Grady Hendrix

163. “I’m sending my boys up to live with my sister in Irmo for the summer.” “On vacation?” Patricia asked. “To keep them alive,” Mrs. Greene said. “You heard those Nancy girls chanting out there. There’s something in the wood’s been taking our babies.”

— Grady Hendrix

164. “Are you kidding?” He smiles. “This whole thing smelled like ratshit from the word go.”

— Grady Hendrix

165. “He left no one behind, no children, no shared memories, no history, no one told stories about him. All he left to mark his passing was pain, and that would fade over time. The people he’d killed would be mourned but the people who loved them would move on. They would fall in love again, have more children, grow old, and be mourned by their children in turn.”

— Grady Hendrix

166. “Patricia’s soul decided that it was no fool and ascended into the afterlife, leaving her at the mercy of the women surrounding her.”

— Grady Hendrix

167. “What do you say to people after you cut off your brother’s arm? What do you say to your brother?”

— Grady Hendrix

168. “Did you know that all the best oracles in classical mythology were crazy?”

— Grady Hendrix

169. “The days dawned noonday hot, and gas tanks hissed when you took off their caps. The sunlight fell hard and sharp, and insects roared in the bushes, only taking a break in the dead hour between three and four in the morning. Windows came down and doors shut tight. Every house became a hermetically sealed space station...”

— Grady Hendrix

170. “I’ve parceled my soul out, and I made them pay for it, and I got so much in return, but that’s the problem with selling something: eventually it’s all gone.”

— Grady Hendrix

171. “Hiding from the fact that we couldn’t stop the war. Hiding from the fact that we weren’t going to change the world with our tiny talents. Everyone realizes that at some point, right? It’s part of growing up. You realize you’re not going to be the star of the show. You realize you’re going to be lucky to scrape by and pay the rent. That’s.”

— Grady Hendrix

172. “Mark was cleaner but he looked like exactly the type of guy who’d go to a Waffle House at three in the morning after shooting a haunted puppet.”

— Grady Hendrix

173. “I bet the only time people ever talk to him is when they ask if he’s saving that seat next to him at the movies.”

— Grady Hendrix

174. “You don’t separate Heather from her drugs, or Dani from Michelle, or Julia from her feminist theory, and you don’t separate Marilyn Torres from her social life. It’s her religion.”

— Grady Hendrix

175. “So,” Glee said. “If you want to communicate with Satan, you’d be better off brushing your teeth than doing ouija.”

— Grady Hendrix

176. “Pat, the store’s general manager, was jogging over in a Van Halen T-shirt and sweatpants.”

— Grady Hendrix

177. “Good girl. Smart girl. Final girl.”

— Grady Hendrix

178. “Every book was “better than Rosemary’s Baby,” “more terrifying than The Exorcist,” and “in the tradition of The Other!” Read in the right order, the titles painted a grim portrait of Satan marching from free-spirited young demon to middle-aged ennui: Satan’s Holiday, Satan’s Gal, Satan’s Seed, Satan’s Child, Satan’s Bride, Satan Sublets, The Sorrows of Satan, Satan’s Mistress, Satan: His Psychotherapy and His Cure.”

— Grady Hendrix

179. “Have you noticed a vibe in this house?” Mercy asked. “Everything feels a little off, doesn’t it?”

— Grady Hendrix

180. “Abby was beginning to feel like everything was too much. She was beginning to feel like nothing she did made any difference.”

— Grady Hendrix

181. “Ever wonder what happens to those final girls? After the cops eliminate them as suspects, after the press releases their brace-faced, pizza-cheeked, bad-hair-day class photos that inevitably get included on the cover of the true crime book? After the candlelight vigils and the moments of silence, after someone plants the memorial shrub?”

— Grady Hendrix

182. “But she didn’t have a choice. She would have to handle whatever happened. There was no such thing as too much. There was just more and more, and her limits didn’t matter. Life didn’t care. She could only hang on.”

— Grady Hendrix

183. “The monsters in our lives are as particular about their final girls as people are about their Starbucks order. Black nonfat camp counselor with high threshold for pain and an extra shot. A double soy lesbian babysitter who’s not afraid to stab someone in the eye, hold the foam.”

— Grady Hendrix

184. “A puppet is a possession that possesses the possessor. And a mask turns a person into a puppet.”

— Grady Hendrix

185. “He left no one behind, no children, no shared memories, no history, no one told stories about him. All he left to mark his passing was pain, and that would fade over time.”

— Grady Hendrix

186. “Chrissy said there were only two forces in the world and they balance each other: life and death. Creation and destruction. But she’s wrong. There’s only one. Because no matter how hard we try, we can’t stop life. No matter how much we fight, no matter how many we kill, things keep changing, and growing, and living, and people get lost, and fall away, and come back, and get born, and move on, and no matter what it’s all so much, it’s all so hard, the way life just keeps going and going.”

— Grady Hendrix

187. “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

188. “A book club made sense because she liked reading, especially mysteries. Carter had suggested it was because she went through life as if the entire world were a mystery to her, and she didn’t disagree.”

— Grady Hendrix

189. “Reality is not a consensus!” Louise said. “We don’t all get a vote!”

— Grady Hendrix

190. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

191. “The spirit of Christmas, it seemed, had touched us all, each in different ways. Some of us were rich, some of us were dead, some of us were on a steamship to Brazil, and some of us had avoided prosecution for manslaughter.”

— Grady Hendrix

192. “It’s a child a year, for three years,” Patricia said. “I know they’re not our children, but they’re children. Are we not supposed to care about them because they’re poor and black? That’s how we acted before and now he wants Blue. When will he stop? Maybe he’ll want Tiger next, or Merit, or one of Maryellen’s?”

— Grady Hendrix

193. “Carter stood by the door, not moving, arms folded, surveying the scene he had created, not going to comfort their son, not unstrapping her arms so she could do it instead, and Patricia thought, I will never forgive you for this. Never. Never. Never.”

— Grady Hendrix

194. “We love them to death, but we don’t like them.”

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195. “His words resonated with something deep inside Amy’s mind. She did run around, trying desperately to get somewhere, and what was the point? Was there a point?”

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196. “She made a mental note.”

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197. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

198. “Everyone keeps telling me it’s all over, that it’s back to normal, but I don’t want to go back to normal. I don’t like the person I used to be. I want to keep being the person I was that night.”

— Grady Hendrix

199. “We don’t know what happened in there.” “I do,” Amy said. “There was a prison here, and we built a new prison on its ruins, and all the old prisoners came out to give it a try.” Basil kept staring up at the store and then he nodded. “Yeah,” he said. “That sounds about right.”

— Grady Hendrix

200. “I won’t let this keep chewing up more and more people. I won’t let messed-up parents keep making monsters, and I wont let these boys keep making more final girls. It’s not some profound and ancient ritual. It’s just a waste of a life.”

— Grady Hendrix