Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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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203. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

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

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

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206. “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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207. “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

208. “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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209. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

210. “Chrissy said there were only two forces in the world and they balance each other: life and death. Creation and destruction.”

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211. “You can’t judge a book by its cover but the cover does give you a pretty good indication of what’s inside.”

— Grady Hendrix

212. “You keep rescuing me and I don’t know why,” Gretchen said. “But every day I tell myself my life must be worth something because you keep saving it. They can’t keep us apart. I don’t care what happens. You never stopped trying to save me.”

— Grady Hendrix

213. “She felt unsettled. She felt unfocused. She wished she could go home to Poppy. She felt so tired.”

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214. “I’m not sure if puppets and dolls are the same, theologically speaking, but eBay is rife with them.”

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

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216. “Fight,” she finally said. Just fight. Never stop.”

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217. “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.”

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218. “You said you wanted to live where people watched out for each other,” Patricia told her. “But what’s the good of watching if we’re not going to act?”

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219. “Think of us what you will,” she thought, “we made mistakes, and probably scarred our children for life, and we froze sandwiches, and forgot car pool, and got divorced. But when the time came, we went the distance.”

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220. “No,” she says. “You have to understand. Our deaths mean more. They’re bigger. More symbolic. They have resonance. Don’t you ever stop and ask yourself why?”

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221. “No,” Marilyn says, and she takes my chin and turns my head to face her. “You’re the best of us, Lynnette. You never quit. You never stopped. You saved everyone.”

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222. “Maybe I’m good at it because for me, all romance is a fantasy. I don’t have any real-life experience to get in the way.”

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223. “If you’re going to murder your best friend with an axe, you should make sure you know what you’re doing.”

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224. “I sit like that for a while, my tears dripping onto Fine’s leaves. I wonder if salt water is bad for him, but he’s not complaining. He’s a good listener. He’s my best friend. Fine is the only living thing besides myself who I’m responsible for. It took me a long time to get up the nerve to make that commitment, and then the first three plants I bought didn’t make it. Number four was Fine, which is short for Final Plant. I’m a final girl, he’s a final plant. We make a good team.”

— Grady Hendrix

225. “You’re both housewives,” he said. “What else do you do all day?”

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226. “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.”

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227. “Money is different for men who are not born with it, and I knew that Augustus had not been born with money but had had to scrape for it, and so it inspired within him a kind of madness, and every day there were born more and more like him, men willing to lose their senses to secure a dollar.”

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228. “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.”

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229. “She was that horse in Animal Farm that worked and worked until they sent him to the glue factory. She did not quit.”

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230. “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.”

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231. “Poppy looked like she’d been so miserable for so long that she didn’t know what she wanted anymore.”

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232. “It’s a children’s story.” “So’s the Bible,” Mark said. “But you got people making laws and killing each other over it every day.”

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233. “It’s starting to feel like an episode of Scooby-Doo.”

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234. “By the power of The Thorn Birds,” she cried, “by the sacred strength of My Sweet Audrina and Forever...”

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235. “There was no falling-out, no great tragedy, just a hundred thousand trivial moments they didn’t share, each one an inch of distance between them, and eventually those inches added up to miles.”

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236. “A monstrous bird unfurled its wings inside Amy’s chest and her anger felt bigger than the world.”

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237. “What good is free love if nobody showers?” Maryellen asked.”

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238. “Sometimes she wanted to let go and find out exactly how far she’d fall if she just stopped fighting. She didn’t expect life to be fair, but did it have to be so relentless?”

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239. “In the end, Amy thought, everything always comes down to those two choices: stay down or stand up.”

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240. “Stay here with me in reality. Things are so much better now than they were. Everyone’s happy. We’re all okay.”

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241. “But even in the twenty-first century it was hard to predict how a pair of Southern parents would react to the news that their thirty-four-year-old unmarried daughter was pregnant.”

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242. “Friend “ is a word whose sharp corners have been worn smooth by overuse. “I’m friends with the guys in IT,” she might say, or “I’m being some friends after work.” But she remembers when the word “friend” could draw blood.”

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243. “You know, Louise, statistically, and there’s a lot of variance in these numbers, but in general, from a strictly scientific point of view, everything turns out okay an improbable number of times.”

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244. “You had a bag of money because that was how you had been paid, and people who got paid in cash were either hit men, drug dealers, bank robbers – or waiters, she supposed. But James Harris didn’t seem like a waiter.”

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245. “Patricia realized she needed to get out of the house and meet new people the moment she leaned over at supper with Carter’s boss and tried to cut up his steak for him. A.”

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246. “In a way, the chair was her friend. It freed her from all the illusions. It showed her the truth. She was alone. No one was there to help her.”

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247. “No split. No fifty-fifty. Everything went to Mark, and nothing went to Louise because Mark deserves it and Louise, well, she can take care of herself. They could not see him the way he really was, the way Louise had seen him all her life.”

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248. “In Charleston, the day you become an adult is the day you learn to ignore your neighbor’s drunk driving and focus instead on whether he submitted a paint-color change proposal to the Board of Architectural Review. The day you become an adult is the day you learn that in Charleston, the worse something is, the less attention it receives.”

— Grady Hendrix

249. “Orsk was designed to move customers counterclockwise, keeping them in a state of retail hypnosis.”

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250. “He was just a little boy in love with himself, making deals without ever asking the price, thinking he’d never have to pay. She saw him, not evil, not good, just another boy who thought he was the only person in the world who mattered.”

— Grady Hendrix