My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance.
ADRIANA TRIGIANII even love the smell of books.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I’ve been so sweet.
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You don’t mind putting in 15 hour days. It’s joyful.
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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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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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And if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.
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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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But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.
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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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To fail and succeed and flourish and fly.
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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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I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me.
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I don’t even like the sound of the dryer going – I like the quiet.
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And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery.
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Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat.
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With full knowledge that the person you married has agreed.
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