Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “What good is free love if nobody showers?”

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352. “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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353. “She marveled at how easy they were with each other, how they got along so unselfconsciously, how different they were from her and Mark.”

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

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355. “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.”

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356. “That was all over now. The cards on every occasion, the phone calls on every birthday, the Christmas newsletter going out to however many hundreds of people. None of it would ever happen again.”

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357. “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.”

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

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359. “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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360. “Don’t be absurd,′ Grace said. ‘Mrs. Greene and I will stay behind. We’ve been cleaning up after men our entire lives. This is no different.”

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361. “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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362. “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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363. “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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364. “Pat, the store’s general manager, was jogging over in a Van Halen T-shirt and sweatpants.”

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365. “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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366. “Mark acting normal, but a puppet had tried to kill her and she wasn’t normal anymore. She laughed harder.”

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367. “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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368. “The point, she realized, was that for once in his life, Mark wasn’t going to win after all.”

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369. “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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370. “Someone comes along saying they’ll save you and you throw yourself into their arms and let them make all the decisions. You can only hope that by the time you come to your senses they haven’t done too much damage.”

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371. “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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372. “I need to be morbid,′ she said, and gave him her “brave soldier” smile. ‘Have a nice time.”

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373. “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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374. “A no-good man will tell you he’s going to change.”

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375. “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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376. “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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377. “Corn dogs are all the proof I need that there is a God.”

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

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379. “But my business is houses, and half of selling a house is psychological. Can’t you guys feel how off this place is?”

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380. “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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381. “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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382. “She knew what to do if too many people showed up for supper, or if someone arrived early for a party, but what did you do when rats attacked your mother-in-law? Who told you how to cope with that?”

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

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384. “Adrienne’s face is all over the news. It’s been a long time since anyone cared about a living final girl, but I guess a dead one really brings the circus into town.”

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385. “Everyone knew that any place up north was roughly the same: lawless, relatively savage, and while they might have nice museums and the Statue of Liberty, people cared so little for each other they’d let you die in the street.”

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386. “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.”

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387. “It’s degrading to watch the woman who hauled us back from the brink reduced to the status of waitress for her children. Eventually they won’t have their mother to be their short-order cook and laundress and maid. They’ll have to trick some poor woman into marrying them to get all that for free again.”

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388. “You’re on your side,” Mrs. Greene said. “Don’t ever fool yourself about that.”

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389. “So much for explaining death the healthy way.”

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390. “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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391. “I did it to mess with you,” Louise said. “Because you always get everything and Mom never told you ‘no,’ but I can’t anymore. Being here is really bad for my mental health. So you win. It’s all yours. I’m done.”

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392. “Nice clean cut,” Santos said, and Louise almost said thank you but managed to stop herself.”

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393. “Y’all want to talk to Satan?”

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394. “Amy clawed at the maple flooring but only succeeded in peeling off one of her fingernails like a wet postage stamp.”

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395. “Vacuum your curtains,” Grace said. “No one ever does it enough. I promise it’ll make you feel better.”

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396. “Isn’t that how every serial killer gets away with it for so long?” Patricia asked. “Everyone ignores the little things and Ted Bundy keeps killing women until finally someone does what they should have done in the first place and connects the little things that didn’t add up, but by then it’s too late.”

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397. “Now there’s always a chance that if you find acid hidden underneath a mattress in a Holiday Inn, left there by two guys you’ve never met, who were hiding it from the police and who are now in jail, it might be spiked with strychnine or something worse. But there was also a chance that it might not be spiked with strychnine or something worse, and Abby preferred to look on the bright side.”

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398. “Maybe this is what makes a life? Responsibilities, obligations, who we tie ourselves to?”

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399. “The last time we did this we learned one thing,” Patricia said. “The men stick together. Their friendship with him is stronger now than it was then. There’s only us.”

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400. “And some man who’s never felt his baby crown is stronger than me? -Slick.”

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