This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships – they can’t. It interferes.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIWhen I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I’ve waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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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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Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.
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My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance.
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No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe.
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I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I’m always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses.
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Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated.
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The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me.
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Taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.
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I don’t even like the sound of the dryer going – I like the quiet.
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When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.
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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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When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick – she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
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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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To fail and succeed and flourish and fly.
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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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A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It’s a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer.
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How dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what’s funny, how to build distinctive and original characters.
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Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better.
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The ship’s manifest showed that they could read and write.
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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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The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
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Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time.
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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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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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I wish I was the kind who made up stories.
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Women move through the world never knowing their power.
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