Ireland has never been more beautiful – the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIThe Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it’s a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you’re free to find a boy who is attainable.
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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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My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance.
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But a child’s joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son’s laughter began to her heart.
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They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me.
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Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you.
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Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time.
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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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Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on.
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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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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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Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes
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One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.
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Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated.
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I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.
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Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.
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And who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
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We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap.
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To fail and succeed and flourish and fly.
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The sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.
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We worry only about those we brought into this world.
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There are two kinds of people in this world.
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That’s when you know for sure somebody loves you.
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Don’t worry about bad things that haven’t happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.
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Money doesn’t have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person.
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All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.
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