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

— Ashly Lorenzana

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

— Ashly Lorenzana

How many pages will it take to tell your story?

— Ashly Lorenzana

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

— Ashly Lorenzana

I believe in energies. Good energy has served me well. Being fair with others, compassionate towards them, remaining humble, and making a difference to someone are just a few of the things that I have seen create good energy. Beautiful things. Human things. I do my best to surround myself with these types of things, to generate an atmosphere thick with such energy. It has kept me safe in many situations. I have taken risks in the past, and managed to avoid harm by the protection of the good energy I have created around me. I believe that ugliness creates more ugliness. And no matter how touched by ugliness you are, you do not have to give in to it and start spreading it beyond yourself. I have seen this sickness and what it does to a person, and those around them.

— Ashly Lorenzana

I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.

— Ashly Lorenzana

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

— 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

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

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

— Ashly Lorenzana