I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIA practical girl never pines; she takes action.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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Women move through the world never knowing their power.
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Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren’t looking for it and didn’t plan on it.
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The intimacy. The deepest level of love.
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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
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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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Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
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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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I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a life, start a business and find love in a place so far from home.
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We worry only about those we brought into this world.
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A good mother is irreplaceable.
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Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.
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Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.
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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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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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All the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.
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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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I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.
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You can’t know if you’ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.
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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea.
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If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens you will end up disappointed.
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And I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses – and that if my readers could feel.
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The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
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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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A feat she had never believed possible
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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 never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.
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