Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don’t feed the source, it dissipates entirely.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIMy mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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You can’t know if you’ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.
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And who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
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The ship’s manifest showed that they could read and write.
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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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The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
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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 wish I was the kind who made up stories.
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We worry only about those we brought into this world.
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The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
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They figure out what you need and they give it to you – without you asking.
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With full knowledge that the person you married has agreed.
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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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All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.
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This should tell you everything you need to know about guys.
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And then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.
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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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I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
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Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.
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The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it’s a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself.
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Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room.
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They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me.
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I don’t use a crap camera, I don’t eat junk, and I’m not going to a dance where the boys are bores.
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The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else,
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And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service.
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I even love the smell of books.
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You have work anytime. But love? Not always.
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