And who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIOn every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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To fail and succeed and flourish and fly.
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Isn’t this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives.
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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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There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting.
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Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there’s a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith.
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Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write.
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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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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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Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you.
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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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I even love the smell of books.
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The ship’s manifest showed that they could read and write.
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Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.
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The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
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And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery.
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