Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “We’ve been cleaning up after men our entire lives. This is no different.”

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252. “There’s so much life and it just keeps going. Maybe not everyone’s life, but Life. It doesn’t stop for anyone... 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

253. “Oh, can it,” Abby’s mom said. “Martin never liked you, either.” Abby’s dad stopped rubbing his pants for a moment and shrugged his bony shoulders. “Now that’s not entirely true,” he said. “I just never thought about you long enough to develop an opinion.”

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

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

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258. “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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259. “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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260. “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.”

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261. “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.”

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262. “Mothering, manipulating – sometimes there wasn’t a difference. She’d learned that from her mom.”

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263. “You’ve been three thousand miles away,” Mark said. “While I’ve been here dealing with Mom and Dad being dead, so you don’t get to suddenly parachute out of your nerd plane and start barking orders.”

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264. “Louise knew her dad. His cheapness was legendary. He called it “understanding the value of a dollar.”

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265. “It was cruel to make her think that someone had come for her. It was sadistic to make her think she was not alone when she knew that she was always alone.”

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266. “Before she could react, Louise found herself and Poppy enveloped in a hug that felt like an airbag going off in her face.”

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

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268. “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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269. “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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270. “You can’t judge a book by its cover but the cover does give you a pretty good indication of what’s inside.”

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

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272. “They filled up their time between childhood and old age trying to be as unremarkable as possible.”

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273. “We get subjected to sequels. That’s what makes our guys different, that’s what makes them monsters – they keep coming back.”

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274. “She turned to the back section about the trials, and read about Charles Manson getting sentenced to death over and over again as if it were a bedtime story. She needed to reassure herself that not all men got away with it, not every time. She read about Charles Manson’s sentencing until her eyes got grainy and she fell asleep.”

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275. “At the end of the day, some rich white people lost their money. Some poor black people lost their homes. That’s just how it goes.”

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276. “I’m not sure how we could have been expected to know that a significant portion of them had parents deployed overseas. I also feel like maybe the first little girl who started crying might have been looking for attention?”

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277. “You have so much, but he has so little.”

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278. “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.”

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

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280. “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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281. “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.”

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

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

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285. “First came Jaws by Peter Benchley, a novel about a stressed-out great white shark suffering from portion control issues. It sank its teeth into the New York Times Best-Seller List and hung on for an astonishing forty-five weeks.”

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286. “Why are we more comfortable with fast, dramatic deaths than the slow decay most people get? After all, isn’t this why we fought so hard? To have the right to do what Michelle is doing right this minute?”

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287. “The kind of people who dressed up as Ricky Walker and marched around outside my house, who followed my foster mom to malls and tried to steal her used Kleenex for voodoo rituals. These are not logical thinkers.”

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288. “It hurts me to talk about Billy like he’s a normal artist, exhibiting in galleries and negotiating with buyers.”

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289. “In college, she didn’t take mushrooms or microdose acid and only kind of enjoyed the occasional glass of wine, and when she saw a person having a mental health crisis in the street, she gave them a lot of distance and the next time she needed to go down that street she tried to find another way.”

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290. “This is also a book about vampires. They’re that iconic American archetype of the rambling man, wearing denim, wandering from town to town with no past and no ties. Think Jack Kerouac, think Shane, think Woody Guthrie. Think Ted Bundy.”

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291. “Stealing the mail is a federal crime.”

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292. “Mom,” she said. “What if I miss?” “Then you tried your best,” Patricia told her. “What if I break one of her windows?” Korey asked. “Then I’ll buy you a frozen yogurt on the way home,” Patricia said.”

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293. “Are you going to do it?” she asked. “Hell, yeah,” Abby said. “Are you scared?” she asked. “Hell, yeah,” Abby said. “So why?” “Because I want to know if Dark Side of the Moon is actually profound.”

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294. “You’ve lied all your life and now your lies are hurting my little girl.” Aunt Honey.”

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295. “For years, Amy had wondered what would happen if she stopped fighting and let go. For as long as she remembered, she had been scared of how far she would fall if she stopped struggling.”

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296. “That’s how you know you are real – one day you die.”

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297. “The police think all kind of things,” Mrs. Greene said. “Doesn’t necessarily make them true.”

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298. “You can only hope that by the time you come to your senses they haven’t done too much damage. In Julia’s case, by the time she woke up he’d sold her franchise rights, cleaned out her bank accounts, and left her with nothing.”

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299. “People are going to live longer in the future,” she said. “We might still be alive.” “But we won’t know how to set the clocks on our VCRs and we’ll be old and hate young people and vote Republican like my parents,” Gretchen said.”

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300. “It is that bad, sir,’ he said. ‘I served with Chinese Gordon and lost everything in Khartoum. My mates. My fortune. My arms and legs.’ “‘They’ll grow back,’ I said. “‘They will?’ he asked, through his tears. “’Of course they will. I’m a doctor. You just have to give them time and... and drink more whiskey.”

— Grady Hendrix