Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “But,” Miss Parcae said, “power without mercy is cruelty. And isn’t that what you’re subjected to now?”

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302. “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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303. “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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304. “You’re both housewives,” he said. “What else do you do all day?”

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

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307. “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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308. “The ancient alchemists knew they were unlikely to turn lead into gold, but they also knew that in their attempts they would make profound discoveries.”

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309. “She became their loudest advocate and their most vocal defender. She pursued every conspiracy theory and used the settlement from her homecoming night massacre to fund legal challenges to their convictions.”

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310. “No. She would not say it. If she said it, then she was agreeing this was fine, that it was okay for a weird person she did not know to give her a Bible.”

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311. “Then let’s rock and roll!” she said. “But first, I’ve got a bladder full of passion fruit lemonade that needs a download, and I warn y’all, the walls in here are real thin. You might want to go outside.”

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312. “She didn’t worry, she didn’t smile, she didn’t feel out of place. A girl with a guitar never has to apologize for anything.”

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313. “Sorry about this,” he said, his massive jaws grinding the meat. “Andras is the sixty-third entity in the Lesser Key of Solomon, a grand marquis of hell and commander of thirty legions of demons, known as the sower of discord and bringer of ruin. I need to protein-load.”

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314. “You must make choices, or the world will make them for you.”

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

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

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318. “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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319. “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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320. “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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321. “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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322. “Her pain felt bigger than the world, but she’d had a baby and she could endure anything.”

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323. “What danger signs should patients watch for when selecting a skeleton doctor? Well, if the doctor refers to patients as “poor unlucky bastards,” be careful. Also, doctors who turn abandoned mental institutions into their own private research facilities are probably up to no good. Especially when the entrance to said clinic is “an underground passageway behind the morgue.” Most important, just remember that whenever a skeleton does science, innocent people wind up getting hurt.”

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324. “She checked underneath the sink but didn’t see anything that might destroy an evil puppet.”

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325. “Patricia reconsidered. Was he rich?”

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326. “Abby Rivers was a certified grown-up because she’d finally cried at a movie.”

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327. “What good is free love if nobody showers?”

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328. “Marasco was a high school English teacher, so his illusions about human nature had long ago been stomped to death.”

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329. “Abby ate shark for the first time. It tasted like steak made out of fish.”

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330. “Kris,” he said. “Let us go into a battle from which we may never return. But I have sworn Odin’s Oath to keep you safe, and I believe in our victory. For our hearts are pure, Troglodyte is with us, and I just gave the van its annual emissions inspection.” With that, he dropped the minivan into drive. “Until Valhalla!” he shouted. And they took off on their final ride.”

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331. “Patricia, would you cheat on Carter with a stranger who showed up on your doorstep, with no people, and told you he was a vegetarian? You’d want to at least check his driver’s license first, wouldn’t you?”

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332. “You’re going to hurt the feelings of all those new library books,” Louise said, and instantly Poppy’s eyes got wide. “They’re going to be sad you didn’t want to read them first. You’re going to make them cry.”

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333. “It touched off a fire inside her, but Patricia had the clarity to see how carefully Carter had built this trap for her. Anything she did would prove him right. She could hear him saying in his smooth psychiatric tones, It’s a sign of how sick you are, that you can’t see how sick you are.”

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334. “Patricia suspected that getting entangled with women like this was the first step on a slippery slope that ended with her wearing felt reindeer antlers at Christmas...”

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335. “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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336. “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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337. “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.”

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338. “She didn’t think things could get any worse, then she saw the sign. Welcome to Florida, it read. The Sunshine State.”

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339. “Johnstone piles incident on incident, trope on trope, and if something isn’t working he keeps on piling. When time itself needs to be brought to a screeching halt, Jay Clute just pulls out his gun and shoots a clock. Because clocks make time, right? In William W. Johnstone’s world, why not?”

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340. “She’d had a left earlobe all her life, and suddenly it was gone. She felt like a friend had died.”

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341. “The paper doesn’t talk about what happens in Six Mile,” Mrs. Greene said. “We’re not quite Mt. Pleasant, not quite Awendaw, not quite anyplace. Certainly not the Old Village. Besides, one little boy has an accident, an old lady runs away with some man, the police figure it’s just colored people being colored. It’d be like reporting on a fish for being wet.”

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342. “Less than twenty percent of Americans supported that war. No one wanted to send their sons and daughters to die in the desert, but the generals gathered in their masses, right? And look at the world they made.”

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343. “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.”

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344. “Since time immemorial, humankind’s greatest natural predator has been the clown.”

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345. “She could taste the swampy stink coating the roof of her mouth, turning her saliva bitter and sending it trickling down the back of her throat.”

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346. “You know why they say all this?” “Because you’re witches?” Fern asked. “Because we’re women,” Periwinkle said.”

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347. “The car buzzed at her, as if a door ajar was the most important problem in her life right now.”

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348. “This year, the not-quite-a-book-club was reading the classics: Helter Skelter, In Cold Blood, Zodiac, Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me, and a new edition of Fatal Vision with yet another epilogue updating the reader on the feud between the author and his subject.”

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349. “We’ve been cleaning up after men our entire lives. This is no different.”

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350. “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.”

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