If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens you will end up disappointed.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIThe ship’s manifest showed that they could read and write.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time.
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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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You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now.
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For a woman, love is the highest dream.
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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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Isn’t this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives.
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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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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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They only go after what they know they can get.
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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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But a child’s joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son’s laughter began to her heart.
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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 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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I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
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If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
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Regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.
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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
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I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving.
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Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
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And then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.
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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
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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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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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They figure out what you need and they give it to you – without you asking.
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There’s nothing an artist needs more – even more than excellent tools and stamina – than a deadline.
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I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.
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