Ashley Munoz > Quotes

“To those who feel fragile. To the ones who have apologized for being soft. The ones who feel like they cry too often. There’s a dark prince out there somewhere searching for you.… who secretly plucked flowers and wished on stars. Hoping that one day their harsh world would hold beauty.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Belong

“Killian made me feel protected, and like I could unapologetically be myself for the first time in my life, while still being cherished.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Belong

“And she’s my entire fucking soul. We’re bound, her and I. In this life, and even in the next. She will haunt me for eternity, and when the devil tries to pry my soul from her grasp, he’ll realize there’s nothing to claim because it’s hers. All I fucking am, and all I ever could be belongs to her.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Started

“I never could touch anyone after you. You were my first, and fuck, if you ended up being my only…there would never be another after what we had.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Started

“Like fuck is another man going to date you while you’re here. If you leave, then that’s one thing. I can’t control who you’re with. But in this town, you’re mine. It’s me you’ll date. Me you’ll call. Me you’ll fuck. You need romance, then read one of those books you love so much. When you go back to DC, you’ll have your fuck buddies again, but here, there’s not a chance I’ll stand by and let you be with anyone else.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Started

“I want you to stop being a complication … But…I also want to wrap your soul around mine, feel the beat of your heart in my neck as I breathe, and carry you with me everyone I go, all at the same fucking time.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Belong

“Sometimes rescuing someone can lead to a pretty fun adventure. I bet Peter enjoyed it.” She didn’t ask anything else, and I started to drift off. Right before I fell asleep, I heard her whisper. “I think Wendy loved Peter more.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Started

“It’s always been you, Jameson. Always in the back of my mind at night, in my chest, expanding with my lungs in the morning, when the sun would warm the earth. You were always in my dreams when I thought of forever.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Promise

“Because you have me, I’ll be your hope. I’ll be your sun, your moon and anything else good in this world. Give me your dark and I’ll hand you all my light.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Ended

“He was a story dipped in ink, his soul a sonnet, constantly bleeding new lines of poetry each and every time his heart broke.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Ended

“Like everyone in the world was waiting on us, but time was ours to waste.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Promise

“I understood then the pain of loving someone who wouldn’t love you back the same way. It was like extending a lung to them and explaining that you realized it would likely be difficult to breathe or even survive without it…but you’d make do.”
― Ashley Munoz, The Joker

“You belong and forever will be in here.” He moved my hand over his heart. “No matter where we go or what we do. You’re it for me.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Belong

“Every last thing that makes up this world. The clubs, the people. The towns. I don’t care. I’ll take it. There’s a dragon somewhere curled in this heart of mine, and it’s greedy for you, Natty. Obsessed, insane and absolutely feral to keep you safe.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Ended

“I was completely in love with him, and my poor tortured heart was a wary thing, terrified of the damage he could do.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Promise

“Fucking you will only make me fall harder, Daisy. I’m barely hanging on the ledge as it is.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Belong

“I’m the memory you’ll have, not the moment you want to keep.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Started

“Do you still hear it? The thunder that broke open our souls that night? It’s still inside me”
― Ashley Munoz, Tennessee Truths

“He was taking too much; did he even know he was claiming pieces of me I had always reserved for him but never in a thousand years thought he’d want?”
― Ashley Munoz, The Joker

“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

“Hope was a fickle thing, so I tried to tamp it down and not let it rise within me.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Promise

“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

“Silas, you’re not beyond hope. You never will be.”
My throat was tight, and it seemed to swell with something uncomfortable. “How do you know?”
“Because you have me, I’ll be your hope. I’ll be your sun, your moon and anything else good in this world. Give me your dark and I’ll hand you all my light.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Ended

“I don’t belong there.”
His thumb traced my bottom lip. “You do. You’re the only thing there that feels like home.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Promise

“You’re the closest I’ll ever get to heaven, to redemption or being found worthy. I look at you, and I see hope. Isn’t that all heaven is? Hope, eternity spent in the one place we can’t imagine living without? You’re that for me. You’re my religion, Natty. My place of worship and devotion. God wants nothing to do with me, but for some reason he still gave me you.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Ended

“What are we doing, Archer?”
“We’re taking our time. You’re safe with me, Wren. Trust me.”
― Ashley Munoz, My Darling Mayhem

“She was my match.
My equal.
Mine.”
― Ashley Munoz, My Darling Mayhem

“I’m not afraid of falling, Daisy. I’m afraid of who I’ll become if I lose that part of myself to you. Because it’s all or nothing. I’d keep nothing of myself for me. You’d own it all.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Belong

“And she’s my entire fucking soul. We’re bound, her and I. In this life, and even in the next. She will haunt me for eternity, and when the devil tries to pry my soul from her grasp, he’ll realize there’s nothing to claim because it’s hers. All I fucking am, and all I ever could be belongs to her. There is nothing inside me that would have tolerated waiting. You’ve never once asked if I loved your daughter, and I know it’s because you already know. What you don’t know is that she’s my ending, Simon. She was my first love, there when I just barely started in this world, and she’ll be the only thing on my mind when I leave it.”
― Ashley Munoz, Where We Started

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