Wild Card Quotes

“She really was very pretty to look at; I just wished her attitude toward me would match how nice she seemed on the outside. My mother had always warned me if someone was pretty to look at but ugly to deal with, then they were just plain ugly. It’s the inside that matters.”
― Ashley Munoz, Wild Card

“Don’t hurt me, Decker. I may seem tough, but my heart is made of glass, the beautiful kind someone worked hard to create with the sand and memories of the most painful moments of my life. It will shatter if you don’t handle it right.”
― Ashley Munoz, Wild Card

“I was the kind of curious that would kill a cat nine times over.”
― Ashley Munoz, Wild Card

“Juan’s words bounced in the back of my mind, even as I thought back to being in high school and how much prettier everyone said she was when they compared her to me. How much more socially accepted she was,”
― Ashley Munoz, Wild Card

“You do—you’re gorgeous, brilliant, have the entire world at your feet. When you look at people, it’s like you know their innermost secrets, and you aren’t sure if you’ll expose them or not. You may have been awkward in your body at one time, but I can assure you”—he lowered his eyes, taking in my stature entirely—“that isn’t the case anymore. Someone is going to come along and be the one to make you finally believe it. Just make sure you remember you’re worth it. No one is doing you any favors, baby girl. You’re the prize…the pot the players ask favors to win.”
― Ashley Munoz, Wild Card

“I clenched my fists at my sides, repeating the same mantra in my head that Dad always told me to say when I wanted to hit someone. Not worth the jail time. Picture a beach, maybe a whale birth or some other magical shit to get your mind off it.”
― Ashley Munoz, Wild Card