Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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.”

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

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203. “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.”

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

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

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

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207. “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...”

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208. “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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209. “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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210. “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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211. “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.”

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212. “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.”

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

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

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215. “Good girl. Smart girl. Final girl.”

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216. “Up here everything felt epic, felt mythic, felt like magic, and lyrics that had been written in the basement of the Witch House came out of Terry’s throat like an incantation.”

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217. “Where everyone was desperate to be an individual, but they all were terrified to stand out.”

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218. “I see,” Dani says, “is a bunch of women I barely know who are obsessed with what happened to them in high school.”

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219. “Even an eight-year-old can be dangerous if he gets the drop on you.”

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220. “Every song was the same song. These were songs for people who were scared to open their mailboxes, whose phone calls never brought good news. These were songs for people standing at the crossroads waiting for the bus. People who bounced between debt collectors and dollar stores, collection agencies and housing offices, family court and emergency rooms, waiting for a check that never came, waiting for a court date, waiting for a call back, waiting for a break, crushed beneath the wheel.”

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221. “You’re just like Mom! Everything has to be a big production and you’re the star. All because you can’t face the fact that your life is sad and empty. Mom is dead. Dad is dead. The house is empty. You’re all alone.”

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222. “It’s where we grew up,′ Louise said. ‘The only things here are memories, and those can’t hurt us.”

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223. “It isn’t too smart for a girl to be smart, her mom had always said. So she just made herself very, very small.”

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224. “When I was a kid I didn’t take my mom seriously. She was a housewife who was in a book club, and she and her friends were always running errands, and driving car pool, and forcing us to follow rules that didn’t make sense. They just seemed like a bunch of lightweights. Today I realize how many things they were dealing with that I was totally unaware of. They took the hits so we could skate by obliviously, because that’s the deal; as a parent, you endure pain so your children don’t have to.”

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225. “And by the time this story is over, they will be covered in blood. Some of it will be theirs. Some of it will belong to others. But they will drip with it. They will swim in it. They will drown in it.”

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226. “She wanted to call Grace, to tell her what she’d seen, but when Grace didn’t understand something she refused to believe it existed.”

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227. “Another person knows what you taste like now,” Blue said.”

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “But if there was one thing she was learning it was that she could endure anything, even the unendurable.”

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231. “Every price must be paid. So why do the same people pay it, over and over again? Why do the same people always bleed?”

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232. “For toil is the great grinding stone to make keen the blade of your spirit. Toil is the ladder by which your putrid flesh ascends into health.”

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233. “These are our parents!” Louise shouted, the first time she’d shouted at an adult maybe ever. “They’re not a doughnut! You don’t split them in half.”

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234. “Dr. Carol looks at me with a complete lack of understanding. It’s getting hard for me to stay calm, but I know I have to. I take two breaths before she speaks.”

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235. “If it had fangs, sharp teeth, or bloody lips on the cover, Patricia bought it. Her final total: $149.96.”

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236. “It wasn’t the same song, it never is, each time you play it the song changes, but the feeling remains the same.”

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237. “It felt like someone had picked it up and shaken out all the people and all the history and left it empty, not a house anymore but a series of boxes, connected by wall-to-wall carpeting, with nothing left inside. Their house didn’t feel haunted anymore.”

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238. “We were never girls. We were witches.”

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239. “But I know what the real answer is. She’s not one of us. She’s never been a final girl. Chrissy was right. She’s a Monster.”

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240. “She didn’t understand half of what she read, there were no women in it except fools and prostitutes, it had nothing to say about their lives, and it felt like a recruitment ad for the army.”

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241. “I promise you things are not as bad as they seem. Nothing you’re feeling is permanent. But you have to get inside, get cleaned up and get normal...”

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242. “Louise started to giggle. She couldn’t help it. This nice, clean restaurant, everyone acting normal, Mark acting normal, but a puppet had tried to kill her and she wasn’t normal anymore. She laughed harder.”

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243. “Abby realized she was asleep. And she was smiling.”

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244. “We learned a long time ago that castration doesn’t solve the basic problem of patriarchal power. Although it is a whole lot of fun.”

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

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

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

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249. “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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250. “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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