A Bad Day for Sunshine Quotes

“One shot of our espresso, and you’ll be able to thread a sewing machine. While it’s running.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“The smile that spread across her face couldn’t have been stopped if Moses himself had commanded it. Jesus, maybe, but Moses didn’t have quite enough clout to dampen her joy.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Today’s Special: You! You are special! (Also, the chicken burrito is $5.)”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Okay, I'll stop, but if anything happens, just ask yourself, WELSD?"

"Mom-"

"No, I mean it. anytime you get into a hairy situation, ask yourself: What would Lisbeth Salander do?" She gave her daughter a minute, then prompted her. "Well?"

"After a heavy sigh, Auri replied. "She'd stab a bitch."

"Exactly. And if that doesn't work?"

Another sigh. "She'd set a bitch on fire."

Precisely. And if that doesn't work?"

"Mom," Auri whined, shifting in her seat.

"If that doesn't work?"

"Fine. She'd eviscerate a bitch's online presence and get him or her sent to prison for kiddie porn.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“A man with more bandages than a six-year-old left alone in a doctor’s office stumbled past the front of the station. The two plodded through the snow.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Levi didn’t care enough to be charming. If someone didn’t like him, he would find the strength to carry on.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“You’re plying me with your feminine wiles?” “Not at all. I left my feminine wiles in my other pants. And I very rarely ply in public.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Knock, knock.” Auri put down her coffee and texted back. “Who’s there?” “A little old lady.” She knew this one but went along with it, anyway. “A little old lady who?” “Oh, my god! All this time, I had no idea you could yodel!”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Book Babes, her mother’s book club, a.k.a. a front for drinking wine and gossiping.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Clearly, he’d never been a woman walking past a construction site.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Baldwin Redding had a thick body and thin hair, and both of those adjectives could describe his mental state.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Okay,”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Great, thanks,” she said, neither grateful nor thankful.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Autocorrect has become our own worst enema.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Auri gestured toward the guy, urging her mom to let her help, to let her question him, but Sunshine fired a warning shot over the bow of her ship. A ship called In Your Dreams.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine