Top 100 Adriana Trigiani Quotes
#1. All your life you was one thing. And now you can be something else if you want! Somebody completely different. You can actually start yourself over from scratch. Turn yourself into what you have always wanted to be!
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#2. And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.
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#3. 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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#4. Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.
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#5. 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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#6. This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling
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#8. 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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#9. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.
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#10. 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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#12. Sometimes things don't always go the way we want this side of Heaven
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#13. The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
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#14. Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.
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#16. Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.
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#17. 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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#18. This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
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#19. Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
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#21. The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown.
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#22. 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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#23. When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
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#24. 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. Your family gathers around you and shores you up while the beauty uplifts you.
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#25. It seems that the people with passion never get the thing they're after.
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#26. 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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#27. Ciro carried himself like a general in full regalia, when in fact he wore secondhand clothes from the donation bin.
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#28. But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.
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#29. 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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#30. I wonder if he knows that every time I make a joke, a little piece of my heart breaks off. It's just self-defense. It seems whenever we get close, he leaves.
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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.
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#38. 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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#39. If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.
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#40. 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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#41. What a boon to live on the water! Such delicious shades and hues! This is a template worthy of the greatest painters. The textures of sand and stone could inspire incomparable sculptures, and the sounds - the steady lapping of the waves, the sweet chirping of the birds, make this a sanctuary.
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#43. 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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#44. The dance that I wasn't going to attend in about a jillion years just turned into a make-out session with random boys we have never met.
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#46. You take every salesman that walks into this shop at his word - why not Gianluca?
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#47. 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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#48. There isn't anything a parent won't do for her child. There is no limit on love.
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#49. 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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#50. Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. I think it's important to be able to make something, whether it's shoes or sausage. Food, clothing, and shelter are the basic needs of all people. If you master a trade that serves one of those needs, you will work for a lifetime.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. I loved him more than he loved me, and that is a bad place for a woman to be.
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#58. 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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#61. If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.
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#63. 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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#64. A woman choses a man she thinks she deserves then sets out to change him to suit herself
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#65. I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.
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#66. 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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#67. There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan,
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. The distance between the haves and the have-nots is a train ride.
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#71. You'll always be my girl. You were from the first moment I saw you. You were sitting in church with your brothers. You were eight years old, and I was twelve, and I thought, I hope she waits for me. Lucia, I'll wait forever if I have to.
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#72. At long last, somebody believes in her. Tonight in this exchange she has gained the tools with which she will build her self esteem: She has been chosen and she has security. Maybe this is all that a person ever needs to succeed. Pearl has been picked, and that has begun to define her.
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#73. The world was noisy . As Ciro looked around, he was the only person who seemed to be listening.
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#74. 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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#75. The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother.
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#76. You must pray.'
'No, Sister.' Ciro smiled weakly. 'I'm not a good Catholic.'
'Well, Ciro, you're a good man, and that's more important.
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#77. Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.
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#78. Who's the artist?"
"My favorite." She pauses. "Unknown." Edydie sits cross-legged on the couch. "There is something so pure about an artist creating something for the sheer joy of it, then sharing it with people and claiming no credit. To me that's the height of romance.
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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
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#82. He knew that men learned how to love; they weren't born with that capacity. He knew the qualities of a godd man included all the aspects that concerned Marco: loyalty, fidelity, ambition, and gentleness.
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#83. As a matter of habit, I stop and pick up seashells that interest me, and I always put the ones I really like in a lovely Baccarat bowl in my living room. It's my way of remembering that I once was young and carefree.
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#84. 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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#85. Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. I only wish I had more of myself to give; somehow my heart does not seem big enough to hold what I feel for him.
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#89. 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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#91. Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. She savored their conversation, and often, when doing her chores, she remembered the words he said to her and how hopeful he was that she might kiss him again. Now she wished she had. because one kiss is not enough.
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#95. 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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#96. I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.
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#97. 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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#98. I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores
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#99. Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
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#100. 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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