Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIAnything you ever make that matters takes a long time.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn’t worry about the consequences.
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Isn’t this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives.
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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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I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.
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And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service.
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The sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.
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So for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.
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You don’t mind putting in 15 hour days. It’s joyful.
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When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.
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You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now.
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That’s when you know for sure somebody loves you.
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I even love the smell of books.
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Regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.
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All the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.
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Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room.
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