Adriana Trigiani Quotes

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. 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.

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. 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.

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. 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. 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, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. 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. The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it's a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself. I even love the smell of books. People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count on the Bookmobile.

The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, 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.

When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.

If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.