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“Sometimes she craved a little danger. And that was why she had book club.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“He thinks we’re what we look like on the outside: nice Southern ladies. Let me tell you something…there’s nothing nice about Southern ladies.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley’s Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this!”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“Men don’t have to pay attention the way we do. Men die because they make mistakes. Women? We die because we’re female”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“Dying isn’t the important thing. It’s nothing more than the punctuation mark on the end of your life. It’s everything that came before that matters. Punctuation marks, most people skip right over them. They don’t even have a sound.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“Why do you pretend what we do is nothing?” she asked. “Every day, all the chaos and messiness of life happens and every day we clean it all up. Without us, they would just wallow in filth and disorder and nothing of any consequence would ever get done. Who taught you to sneer at that? I’ll tell you who. Someone who took their mother for granted.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“A reader lives many lives,” James Harris said. “The person who doesn’t read lives but one. But if you’re happy just doing what you’re told and reading what other people think you should read, then don’t let me stop you. I just find it sad.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“We’re a book club,” Maryellen said. “What are we supposed to do? Read him to death? Use strong language?”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“Let's make sure it's really raining before we worry about floods.”
― Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

“The line between being too careful and not being careful enough is a line you only get to cross once.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“With this book, I wanted to pit a man freed from all responsibilities but his appetites against women whose lives are shaped by their endless responsibilities. I wanted to pit Dracula against my mom.
As you'll see, it's not a fair fight.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“When those things happened, they learned that although those inches may add up to miles, sometimes those miles were only inches after all.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“By the power of Phil Collins, I rebuke you!” she said. “By the power of Phil Collins, who knows that you coming back to me is against all odds, in his name I command you to leave this servant of Genesis alone...
By the power of The Thorn Birds - she cried - by the sacred strength of My Sweet Audrina and Forever...
By the power of lost retainers and Jamaica and bad cornrows and fireflies and Madonna, by all these things I rebuke you”
― Grady Hendrix

“one thing I learned from all these books: it pays to be paranoid.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“A girl with a guitar never has to apologize for anything.”
― Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

“You’d rather get stabbed forty-one times than ruin the curb appeal of your home?” Maryellen asked.
“Yes,” Grace said.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“You can’t beg the world to do what you want. You can’t ask it nicely. You must force the world. You must bend it to your will.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Murder is man’s attempt to steal birth from women,” she says. “We make children, they kill them. We create life, they create death. It’s the way it’s always been.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“I've had three children . . . And some man who's never felt . . . his baby crown is stronger than me? Is tougher than me?”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“Life doesn’t care what you want, other people don’t care what you want. All that matters is what you do.”
― Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

“it is possible to be crazy and paranoid and totally insane and still be right. Maybe the problem with everyone is that the world has become so insane they’re not out of their minds enough to comprehend it.”
― Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

“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.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“Corn dogs," the exorcist said, "are all the proof I need that there is a God.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“Reading the wrong book is almost worse than not reading any book at all,”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Each of us has a monster we must confront, a monster designed to test our personal weaknesses. And in the end, they bring about our deaths. Not literal death, but death as the conclusion of this phase and the beginning of another. Death is the harbinger of transformation, that which precedes a new life.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“The problem was the liars. They said she could do anything she set her mind to, they told her she should shoot for the moon because if she missed she’d be among the stars, they made movies tricking her into thinking she could achieve heroic things. All lies. Because she was born to answer phones in call centers, to carry bags to customers’ cars, to punch a clock, to measure her life in smoke breaks. To think otherwise was insane.”
― Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

“I’m every girl who’s ever run from a man with a weapon, every girl who ever ran for her life across spaces where she was supposed to be safe. I crash into the next studio and I’m Julia running through her dorm, I’m Heather running down her high school halls, I’m Marilyn running through the Texas afternoon, I’m Dani running through a hospital, I’m Adrienne running through this camp, this camp where there will always be a girl running and screaming and screaming, and I’m Lynnette, running at last, and he can’t catch me, I’m as fast as all of us put together, I’m faster than Billy Walker, I’m faster than the Ghost, I’m faster than the entire Volker family, I’m the fastest girl in the world.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“Being a teenager isn't a number, " Maryellen said. "It's the age when you stop liking them.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“I am not sure what the appropriate gesture is to make toward the family of the woman who bit off your ear, but if you felt absolutely compelled, I certainly wouldn’t take food.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“You must make choices, or the world will make them for you.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls