Grady Hendrix

“Once you’ve finish reading it, you’ve finished needing it”

She was beginning to feel like every test was a life-or-death challenge and if she failed even one of them

Life could be an endless series of joyless chores, or she could get totally pumped and make it fun. There were bad things, and there were good things, but she got to choose

“If I stop being happy, will you kill me?” Gretchen asked.

“Totally,” Abby said.

hair is short because long hair can get grabbed. I wear running shoes in case I have to move. I don’t wear loose clothing.

We’re the women who kept fighting back no matter how much it hurt, who jumped out that third-story window, who dragged ourselves up onto that roof when our bodies were screaming for us to roll over and die. Once we start something, it’s hard for us to stop.

Isn’t the point of therapy that one day you don’t need it anymore?”

Men don’t have to pay attention the way we do. Men die because they make mistakes. Women? We die because we’re female. Look at Adrienne.

if someone’s following they can change their jacket or their hat, but it’s a whole lot harder to change their shoes.

Fine is the only living thing besides myself who I’m responsible for. It took me a long time to get up the nerve to make that commitment, and then the first three plants I bought didn’t make it. Number four was Fine, which is short for Final Plant. I’m a final girl, he’s a final plant. We make a good team.