Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

402. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

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

— Grady Hendrix

404. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

405. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

406. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

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

— Grady Hendrix

408. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

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

— Grady Hendrix

410. “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?”

— Grady Hendrix

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

— Grady Hendrix

412. “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

413. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

414. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

415. “A true witch does not fear change. She is in an eternal state of revolution.”

— Grady Hendrix

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

— Grady Hendrix

417. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

418. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

419. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

420. “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

421. “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

422. “Nothing in magic is gained by aiming straight for it. As in life, it is the failures that prove to be most valuable because it is in failure that you learn anything useful, about the world or about yourself.”

— Grady Hendrix

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

— Grady Hendrix

424. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

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

— Grady Hendrix

426. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

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

— Grady Hendrix

428. “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.”

— Grady Hendrix

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

— Grady Hendrix

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

— Grady Hendrix