A Long Stretch of Bad Days Quotes

“The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not only being felt by the victim.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

“The nice thing and the right thing aren’t always the same thing.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

“Sometimes people fall through the cracks.” “Funny thing about those cracks,” Bristal says. “Most of them are teenage-girl shaped.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

“I might recycle, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to do revenge.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

“You’re stuck here anyway,” I told Brandon Childress, who got three days ISS for hiding a vape pen in the panels of the boy’s bathroom ceiling. Insiders knew where to go when they wanted a hit, but Jake Milhaus had slipped off the toilet when he tried to put it back and got a concussion for his trouble.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days