{"author":"Ashly Lorenzana","author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana","total_quotes":92,"quotes":[{"text":"There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["heart","heartbreak","life","love","relationships"],"id":15782,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["advice","books","storytelling","writing"],"id":19178,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["belief","convince","faith","honesty","people","persuading","preaching","religion","sharing","spirituality","thought","truth"],"id":28215,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["best","depression","emotions","feelings","moody","personality","struggle","worst"],"id":35429,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"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?","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["accomplishment","effort","extreme","goals","life","performance","standards","superior"],"id":39782,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["addiction","drugs","meth","morality","people","struggle","values"],"id":44457,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["concepts","creativity","ideas","individuality","innovation","originality","people","thoughts","uniqueness"],"id":45488,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["books","life","memoirs","storytelling","writing"],"id":52215,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["acceptance","difficulty","goodbyes","life","love","people","realization","relationships"],"id":53754,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["justice","morality","revenge","wrongdoing"],"id":55079,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":92,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}