No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIAnd who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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This should tell you everything you need to know about guys.
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In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.
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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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But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.
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Trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer’s intent.
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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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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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I even love the smell of books.
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The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me.
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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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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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Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don’t feed the source, it dissipates entirely.
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So for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.
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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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Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time.
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There are two kinds of people in this world.
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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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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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On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed.
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The intimacy. The deepest level of love.
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When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.
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Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
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When 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.
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The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk.
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Ireland has never been more beautiful – the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.
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Money doesn’t have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person.
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