Top 400 Grady Hendrix Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “The police think all kind of things,” Mrs. Greene said. “Doesn’t necessarily make them true.”

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402. “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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403. “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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404. “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.”

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405. “Everything her mom had built, everything she had spent her life creating, everything that meant so much to her, it was gone. The rain and mud and the feet of strangers had destroyed it all.”

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406. “Do not start anything you cannot finish. Intention matters. Accept anger, accept weakness, accept pain. As these cannot be avoided, turn them to your use. Use care, caution, and common sense in all that you do.”

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

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409. “Don’t worry, Grace,” Patricia said. “When we go off, we’ll be fully cocked.”

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

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

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412. “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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413. “Some things are so small but they make all the difference: a ring on your finger, three little letters in front of your name, a couple of birthdays. Tiny things, but they changed our entire lives.”

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414. “Think of us what you will,” she thought, “we made mistakes, and probably scarred our children for life, and we froze sandwiches, and forgot car pool, and got divorced. But when the time came, we went the distance.”

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415. “No,” she says. “You have to understand. Our deaths mean more. They’re bigger. More symbolic. They have resonance. Don’t you ever stop and ask yourself why?”

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416. “I sit like that for a while, my tears dripping onto Fine’s leaves. I wonder if salt water is bad for him, but he’s not complaining. He’s a good listener. He’s my best friend. Fine is the only living thing besides myself who I’m responsible for. It took me a long time to get up the nerve to make that commitment, and then the first three plants I bought didn’t make it. Number four was Fine, which is short for Final Plant. I’m a final girl, he’s a final plant. We make a good team.”

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417. “Would you prefer me to be ashamed?” she asked. “My appearance is the least of my qualities.”

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

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

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

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

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422. “By the power of lost retainers and Jamaica and bad cornrows and fireflies and Madonna, by all these things I rebuke you.”

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423. “She promised herself that she was not going to cry. They could take her job, but they would not take her dignity.”

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424. “Nothing was strong enough to stand against the passage of time.”

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425. “Some people use literature to understand their lives,” James Harris said, continuing to stare at Korey, who squirmed beneath the intensity of his gaze. “What are you reading?”

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426. “No one likes their children,” Maryellen said. “We love them to death, but we don’t like them.”

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427. “I’m an atheist,” Mark said. “Pish,” Aunt Gail said, dismissing him. “You’re a Presbyterian, just like your parents.”

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428. “I know exactly what you need,” Mark said. – “Welcome to Waffle House,” the waitress said, coming over to their back corner booth and stopping short.”

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429. “Louise swore to herself that she would not cry. Her mother had arranged this entire performance to humiliate her, and she would not cry.”

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430. “She knew their names, she had seen her mom make every single one of them, she’d used some of them to perform her mom’s shows, and they had been happy for so long, and warm, and safe, and cared for, and now they had lost their creator and grief had twisted them into the deranged thing and she didn’t want to do this.”

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