Connie Harper

“Just now, she'd conjured $80 out of thin air, turning the sound into money like magic. She had one weapon left. One they couldn't take away.”
― Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

“And the primary if not only difference between the liberals and the illiberals on this issue is that the American alt-right and France's National Front and Germany's National Democratic Party (I haven't been to England, so will leave them out of this) will try their best to kill you quickly or keep you out of the West altogether, whereas the liberals will write elaborate pamphlets about your condition while doing little to change it and even less to come in contact with it -- or with you, for that matter.”
― Casey Gerald, There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir

“West Virginia was a haunted house. Grocery stores sat dark, empty diners stared out from blank windows, farmhouses collapsed beside the highway like rotten teeth.”
― Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

“I can't believe that after a lifetime of playing metal, it turns out the world is a shitty country song.”
― Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls