The Daymakers Quotes

“You have a good day, okay? The sun is shining. You woke up this morning. Tomorrow is unknown. Only the right now matters.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“They’re somewhere around post-punk, or maybe even prog rock. They like to vary it up, which I think is what makes them so good. The punk side lets you say fuck you to The Man”—she flipped the wall the bird—“but the soft rock ballads let the man fuck you,” she said with a chuckle and wink.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“Charlotte, this is Royal.” He pointed to the guy with the crown half mask. “Knight.” The guy beside him with the gas mask. “Hero.” Demon skeleton guy with the rune on his forehead. “And Poet.” The blinded skeleton with the happy voice. “Guys, this is Charlotte.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“Trust me, I wouldn’t scale a fence with a fucking potentially broken rib for anything less than safety. Especially not to land on some entitled asshole’s dick,” she snarked back.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“They make you interesting. Perfection is for those who can’t see past the surface.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“Dear Jesus, thank you for putting me in the way of a band of kind, somewhat degenerate men who’ll give me money to blow them. Amen.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“Lottie, that was a fucking biblical experience.” I put my fist up, and he bumped it. “Hallelujah.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“Nope. If it has to be sexual for it to be approved time, we’ll watch it naked. I’ll eat Milk Duds from between her tits. Whatever it is, she’s with me and Hero tonight.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“You make them happy. They make you happy. Watching you together makes me happy. I can share, if that’s what it takes to get a little of your sunshine on me.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“I liked to think that these books had seen so much, they’d had lives of their own. Tears had soaked into their pages. Laughter had ruffled their leaves. People had gripped their covers so tightly that they’d crinkled the cardboard. Corners had been dog-eared to remind the reader of moments they wanted to reread over and over again.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“The sickly sweet tone of his voice made me want to vomit. Or that might’ve been the pain. Glass cut into the back of my thighs, but it paled in comparison to the throbbing in my face and ribs.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“He would have been handsome in his heyday, and hell, he was a silver fox now. My daddy issues didn’t run that deep, though.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“The man loves the industry, but when he sings, it’s like an elk in mating season. Not even the punk rock kids can like that.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“The sun is shining. You woke up this morning. Tomorrow is unknown. Only the right now matters.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“It had been Hero who’d given me his cell number and told me that he owed me one and to call if I needed anything. Getting an IOU from a thirteen-year-old had been wild—what was he going to give me, a box of cookies and a Playstation?”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“When he was home, he still wasn’t really there with me. He was working, or playing videogames with his friends, or on his phone, ignoring me. At the beginning, I hadn’t cared; I was just happy not to be by myself anymore. To have someone else to rely on. Until I couldn’t rely on him anymore.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers