Ashly Lorenzana

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

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

Don't kid yourself by saying that one time can't make you addicted. It can. I believed it couldn't too when I first tried meth. I was so, so wrong. The worst part about it is that you won't realize what has happened immediately afterwards. Addiction is a gradual process and it doesn't happen overnight. But trust me when I tell you that one time is all that it takes to set this into motion. It can and it will.

Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.

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

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

About a month after she found out about that, I got pregnant for the first time. I knew I didn't want to have a baby at all, and wanted to get an abortion. But the day I found out, I wasn't sure what to do first. I felt alone and lost and needed someone to call who I could tell. I needed help. I wasn't sure if she would talk to me again so soon after what had happened. I decided to take a chance and try calling her. When I told her, she said, "Well, an abortion is only like $500, so go turn a couple of tricks and get it taken care of," before she hung up on me. I probably should have called someone else, but I didn't know who else to call.

How many pages will it take to tell your story?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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