Ashly Lorenzana Quotes

The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.

There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.

By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.

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.

There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.

It’s hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

Experience is the opposite of education.

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world

All we know is what we're told.

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

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.

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

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.

If you're not scared of the dark, it hasn't been dark enough.

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.

​You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.

You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart.

How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

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.

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.

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.

Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there.

How many pages will it take to tell your story?

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.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

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.

Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.

We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?