Top 35 Greer Hendricks Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. It’s when you become aware of something – the name of an obscure band, say, or a new type of pasta – and it seems to suddenly appear everywhere. Frequency illusion, it’s also called.”

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2. “Five seconds can change a life.”

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3. “One percent of the population is composed of psychopaths, and most of them aren’t the homicidal criminals we envision. We’ve all encountered them: people who seem charming and charismatic, but who lie without remorse and manipulate and deceive. And female psychopaths can be particularly adept at manipulation.”

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4. “It’s remarkable how the simplest of decisions can create a butterfly effect; how a seemingly inconsequential action can cause a tsunami.”

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5. “Grief isn’t linear. It isn’t logical. There’s no structure or civility to it; it grabs you when you least expect it and digs in its nails until you succumb.”

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6. “The truth is the only way to move forward.”

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7. “In every lifetime, there are pivot points that shape and eventually cement one’s path.”

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8. “Presenting an unremarkable facade to the outside world is the norm; superficial conversations comprise the majority of social encounters. When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self – the deepest fears, the hidden desires – a powerful intimacy is born.”

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9. “My anxiety is being replaced by something more solid and welcome: anger.”

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10. “Gaze detection, it’s called – our ability to sense when someone is observing us. An entire system of the human brain is devoted to this genetic inheritance from our ancestors, who relied on the trait to avoid becoming an animal’s prey.”

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11. “But I can’t let it go. Guilt is always the heaviest thing I carry.”

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12. “People are motivated to break their moral compasses for a variety of primal reasons: survival, hate, love, envy, passion. And money.”

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13. “When a spouse dies, you become a widow or widower, but there is no word for what you become when you lose a child. Perhaps it’s because there is simply no language to describe that kind of devastation.”

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14. “For years, I have allowed fear to dominate me. But as I sit in the cab, I realize another emotion is rising to the surface: anger. It felt cathartic to unleash my rage at Richard after absorbing his for so long.”

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15. “Every lifetime contains pivot points – sometimes flukes of destiny, sometimes seemingly preordained – that shape and eventually cement one’s path.”

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16. “These moments, as unique to each individual as strands of DNA, can at their best cause the sensation of a catapult into the shimmer of stars. At the opposite extreme, they can feel like a descent into quicksand.”

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17. “We all have reasons for our actions. Even if we hide the reason from those who think they know us best. Even if the reasons are so deeply buried we can’t recognize them ourselves.”

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18. “Sometimes I think I’ve hurt everyone I’ve ever loved.”

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19. “TIME IS A CHAMELEON. It’s ever changing, cannily adapting to circumstances.”

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20. “Uncertainty is an excruciating state in which to exist.”

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21. “Then my aunt does one of the bravest things I have ever seen. She smiles.”

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22. “He kept me off-balance for years; whenever I displeased him, I suffered consequences. But he also clearly relished being my savior and comforting me when I was upset. The dueling sides of my husband’s personality made him an enigma to me. I still don’t completely understand why he needed to control everything in his environment as precisely as he organized his socks and T-shirts.”

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23. “Tell colorful, drawn-out stories that deflect attention from the fact that you aren’t actually sharing anything. Avoid specifics that will separate you from the crowd. Be vague about the year you graduated. Lie, but only when completely necessary.”

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24. “You, with that heavy makeup case you lug around and the wild hair you attempt to tame and the vulnerability you fail to hide.”

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25. “You don’t award confidences easily, yet you yearn for the relief that comes with the release of a secret.”

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26. “This could be the case in every relationship, that we think we’ve entered into a union with another person when, in fact, we’ve formed a triangle with one point anchored by a silent but all-seeing judge, the arbiter of reality.”

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27. “I don’t fear strangers, though. I’ve learned more harm can come from familiar faces.”

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28. “Communication is a vital component of a healthy partnership. It is a necessary foundational aspect of a romantic relationship, as well as a therapeutic one. Yet self-preservation must trump the blind trust of one’s spouse. Particularly when one’s spouse has proved untrustworthy in the past.”

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29. “Perhaps he will be the one who will finally enable you to experience true love. Not the storybook version. The real kind, which sustains through phases of dark, until the return to light.”

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30. “Know thy enemy, Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War.”

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31. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.’ Well, I’ve never feared bad weather, either.”

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32. “Those extraneous “no’s” are your undoing: Liars, like the chronically insecure, often overcompensate.”

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33. “It can be frightening to become acquainted with parts of yourself that you don’t like to admit exist.”

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34. “Some people contend there are two primal fears. The first and most basic is the end of our existence. The second is isolation; we all have a deep need to belong to something greater than ourselves.”

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35. “We all have reasons for our judgments, even if those reasons are so deeply buried we don’t recognize them ourselves.”

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36. “In my marriage, there were three truths, three alternate and sometimes competing realities. There was Richard’s truth. There was my truth. And there was the actual truth, which is always the most elusive to recognize. This could be the case in every relationship, that we think we’ve entered into a union with another person when, in fact, we’ve formed a triangle with one point anchored by a silent but all-seeing judge, the arbiter of reality.”

— Greer Hendricks