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.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIWhen a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick – she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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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 cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.
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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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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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Regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.
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I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.
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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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All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.
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The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you’ve solved the mystery.
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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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In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.
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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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I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.
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There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting.
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Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.
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