Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
ADRIANA TRIGIANII like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope.
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Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time.
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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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The intimacy. The deepest level of love.
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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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Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
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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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So for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.
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We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap.
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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
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You don’t mind putting in 15 hour days. It’s joyful.
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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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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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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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Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.
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