Top 100 Adriana Trigiani Quotes
#1. Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.
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#2. He's a good-looking sap, and he knows it. He's just exactly smart enough to know that he can only be important in a place where he has no competition.
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#3. The distance between the haves and the have-nots is a train ride.
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#4. It [money] doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water
whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.
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#5. It didn't occur to either of them that lives would be lost, that the world they were to defend would shift under their feet and never be the same again. They only dreamed of the adventure. A
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#6. I've learned that it's fine to have expectations, and dreams are wonderful, but once in a while, it would be good to have something come my way without having to fight for it.
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#7. What you love, I love. What worries you, worries me. What you dream of, I will try and make come true.
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#8. Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.
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#11. Nobody ever told me that motherhood was temporary. You think you have years and years with them, but the truth is, you don't.
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#12. I loved him more than he loved me, and that is a bad place for a woman to be.
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#13. Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our lonely counterparts on a dance floor. Sounds like a scorecard situation to me.
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#14. Ciro was beginning to understand the concept of America, and it was changing his view of the world and of himself. A man could think clearly in a place that gave breadth to his dreams. There
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#16. I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
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#17. This is something that I have learned at PA that I would have never learn at home because I have my own room and I'm an only. Nobody has it easy, not even the Great and Tall Blond One
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#18. Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
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#19. I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
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#20. But that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry
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#21. That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you
without you asking.
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#22. All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by ...
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#24. The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.
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#25. People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.
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#26. Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
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#27. I want to be closer to the sky. Closer to the pink moon. And closer to the stars that shine over South Bend, which turn out to be the very same ones that twinkle over Brooklyn.
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#28. In the last moments of his life Ciro realized that a truly good man is a rarity, a speck of gold in a mountain of slag.
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#29. I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to fail and succeed and flourish and fly.
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#30. If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.
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#31. It seems that the people with passion never get the thing they're after.
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#32. I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.
Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)
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#34. Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.
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#35. Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.
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#37. He figured that all the threads of his experience would eventually be sewn together, taking shape in harmony and form to create a glorious work of art.
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#38. But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible
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#39. This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling
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#40. There was an especially deep bond between the eldest and the youngest. Enza and Stella were the beginning and end, the alpha and omega, the bookends that held all the family stories from start to finish as well as the various shades and hues of personality and temperament.
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#41. I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
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#42. The operators were bound together by what they were running from - poverty in all its forms, despair, hunger, decimated families - as well as what they hoped to gain. Their imaginations were filled with American treasures:
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#43. There isn't anything a parent won't do for her child. There is no limit on love.
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#44. A cassock does not make a man a priest, any more than a fine dress makes a woman truly beautiful - or good or generous or intelligent. Don't confuse the way someone looks with the way they are.
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#46. A dozen ... chocolate chip cookies ... a pot of coffee, and a good book are all I will need for the rainy weekend rolling in.
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#48. Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.
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#49. All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.
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#50. When you lose someone, they take a bigger place in your heart, not a smaller one. Every day it grows, because you don't stop loving them. You wish you could talk to them. You need their advice. But life doesn't always give us what we need, and it's difficult.
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#51. Ciro took Enza's face in his hands. I have loved you all of my life. I was a boy who knew nothing, but when I met you, somehow I understood everything
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#52. Each poor immigrant girl had a plan in place to survive. Some had brothers or fathers for protection, others, young husbands; but for all of them, the first line of defense was their scissors.
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#53. Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.
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#54. now, I am doing penance for my selfishness. Who knew I'd see the world through the drain of an old sink and across the surface of a wooden chopping board? But here it is, and here I am. In my zeal to be a part of a grand adventure, I traded my mother's kitchen for this one." Sister
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#55. The weight of what had transpired on this day finally settled on Ciro. This wasn't really their home, and the nuns weren't truly family. The security they had provided was only on loan.
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#56. Enza studied the photograph of her parents on their wedding day as if it were a map. In a sense it was, as they were creating a destination, a life together.
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#57. I have decided that love is only real and true when it makes you feel safe.
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#60. It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.
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#61. If we're going to be friends, I want to be useful to you. You have to know what makes a person sad to figure out how to make them happy." "What
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#62. My mother was an avid reader ... She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes ...
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#63. Its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them
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#64. There was no comfort in happy memories; they just made it all seem worse.
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#65. He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.
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#66. If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people.
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#67. Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.
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#68. Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.
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#69. I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.
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#70. The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.
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#71. Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.
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#72. There was a fleeting cold front, the slight judgment that said immigrants were a necessary fact of life, one that must be tolerated but never truly accepted. The only way to ever become a permanent part of America's greatness would be to defend it. Cassidy
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#73. You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
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#74. This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap ...
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#75. Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
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#77. All around him during the war, Ciro saw men lie, engage in acts of cowardice, create feeble attachments to women, only to leave them - men acting in pursuit of their own comforts, men behaving without grace. And
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#78. He decided to cling to those things that were wonderful about her, and to ignore the ravages of time and insecurity, instability, and anxiety.
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#79. When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.
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#81. I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.
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#82. He sank into the leather seat and held hope in his heart like a hundred stars.
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#83. I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?
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#84. A man who can seduce with a turn of phrase will not disappoint in the bedroom.
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#85. Tonight, I am a Perfect Girl, because I had a perfect night. And it ended with three perfect kisses. Three. What a lucky number.
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#86. Ciro, who loved machinery and its design, thought the tanks were ugly. What beauty could be found in something that was created with the sole purpose of destruction?
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#87. Better meant American. Better meant safe, clean, honest, and true. Dreams of every size and description lulled them into restful sleep at night and fueled them through their backbreaking days. At
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#88. When I close my eyes, all I ever see is her face. There is no place or time without her. Where I am doesn't matter when we're apart. All I want is her.
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#89. Salad of baby spinach, artichoke hearts, and slices of fig, drizzled with olive oil and salt and a little fresh lemon juice,
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#90. You're a drunk, and it's no wonder your husband stays in West Virginia.
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#91. There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.
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#92. The girl who built her life so carefully so she'd never have to ask anybody for anything. I have had it with me. Whoever I was!
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#93. What's a true Italian?" "He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you.
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#94. Enza thought no place on earth could be colder than the Italian Alps, but now she knew she just had never been to Minnesota.
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#95. The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
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#96. For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars. Now
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#98. The clock over the mantel in the beau parlor at the Milbank House ticked
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