All we know is what we're told. - Ashly Lorenzana
You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to. - Ashly Lorenzana
Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice. - Ashly Lorenzana
If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more - Ashly Lorenzana
A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me? - Ashly Lorenzana
Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe. - Ashly Lorenzana
The world is big in some ways, and so small in others. - Ashly Lorenzana
It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women. - Ashly Lorenzana
There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love. - Ashly Lorenzana
People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. - Ashly Lorenzana
They say blood is thicker than water. It's also more treacherous, prone to betrayal, full of shit and quite honestly, I wouldn't put much weight into it at all. - Ashly Lorenzana
The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone. - Ashly Lorenzana
Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that? - Ashly Lorenzana
Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though. - Ashly Lorenzana
Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain. - Ashly Lorenzana
Experience is the opposite of education. - Ashly Lorenzana
I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it! - Ashly Lorenzana
If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on. - Ashly Lorenzana
I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own. - Ashly Lorenzana
The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too. - Ashly Lorenzana
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong. - Ashly Lorenzana
What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once. - Ashly Lorenzana
The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they. - Ashly Lorenzana
It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible. - Ashly Lorenzana
Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends. - Ashly Lorenzana
The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that. - Ashly Lorenzana
Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear. - Ashly Lorenzana
Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone. - Ashly Lorenzana
How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others. - Ashly Lorenzana
You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart. - Ashly Lorenzana
Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist. - Ashly Lorenzana
Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that. - Ashly Lorenzana
How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see? - Ashly Lorenzana
I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all. - Ashly Lorenzana
I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world - Ashly Lorenzana
It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt. - Ashly Lorenzana
The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it. - Ashly Lorenzana
Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling. - Ashly Lorenzana
The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy. - Ashly Lorenzana
There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score. - Ashly Lorenzana
No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again. - Ashly Lorenzana
No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do. - Ashly Lorenzana
It's always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom. - Ashly Lorenzana
Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these. - Ashly Lorenzana
If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark. - Ashly Lorenzana
We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface. - Ashly Lorenzana
How many pages will it take to tell your story? - Ashly Lorenzana
I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls. - Ashly Lorenzana
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one. - Ashly Lorenzana
By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge. - Ashly Lorenzana
While it's true that I am guided in life by my feelings and emotions, that certainly does NOT mean that I trust them.Emotions are reactions to things based on all of a person's prior experiences and we forget sometimes just how limited those are. - Ashly Lorenzana
Love is an awfully personal thing for most of us, so why isn't hate? - Ashly Lorenzana
I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below. - Ashly Lorenzana
I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me. - Ashly Lorenzana
It’s hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension. - Ashly Lorenzana
Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony. - Ashly Lorenzana
Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us. - Ashly Lorenzana
The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that. - Ashly Lorenzana
The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else. - Ashly Lorenzana
I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. - Ashly Lorenzana
Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in. - Ashly Lorenzana
Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals. - Ashly Lorenzana
Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there. - Ashly Lorenzana
If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother? - Ashly Lorenzana
You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity. - Ashly Lorenzana