“Let's make sure it's really raining before we worry about floods.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“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, quote from Horrorstör
“Something I learned from the Serbian tribes. Churches are built where saints were martyred. A bridge requires a child in its foundations if it is to hold. All great works must begin with a sacrifice.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“There are enough people running around in here. It’s starting to feel like an episode of Scooby-Doo.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“The more Amy struggled, the faster she sank. Every month she shuffled around less and less money to cover the same number of bills. The hamster wheel kept spinning and spinning and spinning. Sometimes she wanted to let go and find out exactly how far she’d fall if she just stopped fighting. She didn’t expect life to be fair, but did it have to be so relentless?”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“The walls of her stall were covered with graffiti. If it had been funny (“Pull here for MFA Degree” right below the toilet paper dispenser) she would’ve stayed longer, but it was mostly weird random names and dates.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“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.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“It was the voice of a preacher, a voice of the past, a voice for cathedrals, a voice from a time before microphones. It was a voice that denounced witches and flogged sinners. It was a voice that sang Latin while women burned at the stake and men were crushed beneath stones.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“We’re getting out of here,” she said. “The store will try to stop us. It’ll disorient you, get inside your head, try to confuse you and control you. But if you stay focused, you can block it out. You have to fight, do you understand?”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“For her, the world was divided into two kinds of jobs: those where you had to stand up, and those where you could sit down. If you were standing up, you were paid hourly. If you were sitting down, you were salaried.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“She didn’t expect life to be fair, but did it have to be so relentless?”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“Here was the other option: the tranquilizing chair. It was always waiting for her. It always wanted her back. It always wanted her to quit again, to sit down and never get back up.
In the end, Amy thought, everything always comes down to those two choices: stay down or stand up.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“Life doesn’t care what you want, other people don’t care what you want. All that matters is what you do.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“The car buzzed at her, as if a door ajar was the most important problem in her life right now.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“For toil is the great grinding stone to make keen the blade of your spirit. Toil is the ladder by which your putrid flesh ascends into health.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“There’s nothing waiting inside but retail slavery, endless exploitation, and personal subjugation to the whims of our corporate overlords.” If”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“That was her nature. Fail and quit. If you cut her open, it was fail and quit right down to her bones.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“She promised herself that she was not going to cry. They could take her job, but they would not take her dignity.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“Work gives you a goal. It lets you build something that lives on after you’re gone. Work has a purpose beyond making money.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“All great works must begin with a sacrifice.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“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.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“It’s complicated. But pain and fear have a way of simplifying things.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“Amy would honor the first commandment of keeping her job: Do not look like an idiot in front of anyone who can fire you.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
“Life doesn't care what you want, other people don't care what you want. All that matters is what you do.”
― Grady Hendrix, quote from Horrorstör
Grady Hendrix
Born place: in Charleston, SC, The United States
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― Francesca Zappia, quote from Made You Up
“Because every desire has its proper object. It means people spend their lives wanting things they shouldn’t. The world confuses into taking their love and aiming it where it doesn’t belong.”
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