Top 90 Mindy McGinnis Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Now that it’s been said, I feel like everything else, no matter how horrible, is manageable.”

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52. “I am a wolf that my sister kept in a cage, until her hand was removed.”

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53. “I can call them at any time, invading their lives with a series of numbers, like spinning the combination on their locker and suddenly being in their space. It’s so intensely personal it almost feels profane.”

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54. “You chose to stop acknowledging a world that has treated you foully. What’s saner than that?”

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55. “And so I’m waiting for another rejection, another affirmation that I don’t belong among these people. That it’s not safe for me to be here.”

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56. “These are your friends now, Grace Mae. A madman who eats cancer in the dark and another who searches for a different kind of killer, the kind who smiles at you in the light of day.”

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57. “They work their discreet types of madness on us, power and pain, and we hold to our truths in the darkness.”

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58. “Grief is by nature the most violent of them all. The ancients tore their hair and rent their clothing to express it. Now we keep the dead body in our homes, shaking people’s hands as they pass by to view it and trying to stop ourselves from crying because it’s not socially acceptable. Tell me – which of these mourning practices is least sane?”

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59. “It’s a reflex, something that’s been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.”

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60. “I stopped you because it’s easier to fantasize about violence than actually perform it,” she says a few minutes later. “Most people consider things they wouldn’t do in real life, and there’s enough visceral satisfaction in the thought to alleviate the emotion. In reality, hurting another person on purpose is not a simple task, and not everyone is up to it.”

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61. “I don’t want the memories that I have.”

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62. “It all went the wrong way, like a carefully scripted scene I imagined ahead of time falling apart because nobody else knew their lines.”

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63. “To be aware of your own doom is no easy thing.”

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64. “Nothing is ours; nothing is sacred. The one thing we shared was pulled into pieces, memorialized and mythologized so that everyone could participate in it.”

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65. “Sometimes the loveliest places harbor the worst monsters.”

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66. “Little things build up if you live with someone.”

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67. “Grace had learned long ago that the true horrors of this world were other people.”

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68. “Why should I care if the tides rise again if I am only a corpse riding the waves?”

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69. “Baby girl,” Dad says. “There’s nothing you can ever do that will make you unwelcome in my house.”

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70. “All imperfections glare in the spotlight.”

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71. “The lamp on the side table illuminates his half-eaten dinner, now decorated with a fat winter fly bogged down in the mashed potatoes. It’s still struggling a little, threadlike legs pushing against gravy.”

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72. “Some might think me too harsh. But some men should be marked. I’m fit for that task.”

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73. “We use the same consonant and vowel sounds but have never said them to each other before, and somehow that makes them all new again.”

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74. “Simply using the words sane and insane is a way for the population to draw a safe line through humanity, and then place themselves squarely on the side of the healthy.” Grace’s.”

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75. “We use objects to navigate spaces, making a map in our heads as neurons fire, pathways so well-worn we don’t even know we reference them as we move from one location to the next, the same pattern. Every day.”

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76. “She likes boys, and she can get them. You were hurt by that, but it wasn’t Branley who hurt you. It was Adam.”

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77. “It’s not safe for me to be out, but they rattled my cage.”

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78. “Right now life is on pause and I want it that way, because she can’t slip away from me entirely until I start moving on.”

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79. “There’s a part of everyone deep down inside of them not meant for you. And the sooner you learn that, the easier your life is gonna be.”

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80. “I’m living my life waiting for the man who comes for me like one did for Anna, with hungry eyes behind the wheel and rope in the trunk. I’m ready. But I don’t know how much longer I can wait.”

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81. “It’s easier to like animals than people, and there’s a reason for that.”

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82. “A tiny crack of kindness that makes him all the more hateful, because if there’s a version of him that feeds birds as winter descends, then there’s a decency that he chose to overlook when he did other things.”

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83. “I want to reach inside and pluck the darkness out of her.”

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84. “It’s easier to like animals than people.”

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85. “I wore high heels for the first time and they kept sticking in the mud.”

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86. “If either one of you is ever in a situation you’re not entirely comfortable with – call me. I don’t care what time it is. I don’t care who is there or what is going on. You call me and I will come get you.”

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87. “I don’t like to come home. Other houses have warmth in them, the lines between the people who live there humming with unspent energy ready to unreel. Conversations from the past still hover in the air, waiting for the threads to be picked up again. The air here is cold, empty to the point of sterility. When I hear my name it’s shocking, a word that isn’t spoken. Taboo.”

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88. “There’s a part of everyone deep down inside of them not meant for you.”

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89. “Neat,” I say, which is a nice word that when you say it just right, becomes something else. Years of listening to Mom and Dad have taught me how to wield tone like a weapon.”

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90. “All the stupid people I know are happy.”

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91. “Some things are too important to wait.”

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92. “You can’t get people to like you, but you can get revenge.”

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93. “My arrival saved the kingdom, while his only reiterated that his blood would fill the throne one day.”

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94. “Khosa’, I say again, And for the first time, I wish to be only that.”

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