A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It’s a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer.
ADRIANA TRIGIANINo one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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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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They only go after what they know they can get.
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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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All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.
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Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes
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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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For a woman, love is the highest dream.
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All the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.
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And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery.
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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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But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened.
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To fail and succeed and flourish and fly.
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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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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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I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.
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