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Adriana Trigiani Quotes | Quotes said by Adriana Trigiani

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #1

    ... but that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry


  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #2

    A good mother is irreplaceable.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #3

    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.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #4

    Adoro ver os barcos no rio Hudson, mas é muito diferente de estar num que balança e galga as ondas. Admira-me que a viagem seja tão agitada, porque do cais os barcos parecem deslizar sobre a água. Não se passa o mesmo com o amor? Parece tão simples e fácil à distância – mas quando estamos nele, é uma experiência diferente. Sentimos cada solavanco e perguntamos que onda nos irá derrubar, se iremos sobreviver ou afogar-nos na água traiçoeira, se nos safaremos ou se nos iremos virar?

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #5

    Aprendi que viajar ainda é a melhor forma de alterar a vida, mudar as ideias e abraçar a inspiração, mas devemos estar de olhos bem abertos e ansiosos por agarrá-la, ou é um desperdício.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #6

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

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #7

    But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #8

    Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.
    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.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #9

    Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #10

    I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #11

    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?

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #12

    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

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #13

    I even love the smell of books.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #14

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

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #15

    I love you , Valentine’ is actually a popular phrase used in greeting cards.”
    If you were sending me one, what would it say?” he asks.
    I love you, too, Roman.”
    And there it is, words that I dread to say and do mean, because with them comes the responsibility of owning it, moving forward together and deciding for real who we are to each other. Now we’re not just lovers discovering what we like and sharing what we know. In this mutual declaration, we’re accountable to each other. We’re in love, and now, our relationship has to build slowly and beautifully in order to hold all the joy and misery that lies ahead.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #16

    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. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #17

    If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #18

    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.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #19

    Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #20

    It [money] doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water--whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #21

    Mom, how do you know if the guy is the guy?”

    You mean if he’ll be a good husband?” She pauses, then says “The ticket is for the man to love the woman more than she loves him.”

    Shouldn’t it be equal?”

    Mom cackles. “It can never be equal.”

    But what if the woman loves the man more?”

    A life of hell awaits her. As women, the deck is stacked against us because time is our enemy. We age, while men season. And trust me, there are plenty of women out there looking for a man, and they don’t mind staking a claim on somebody else’s husband, no matter how old, creaky, and deaf they are.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #22

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

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #23

    No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. 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; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #24

    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 of the Bookmobile.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #25

    Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our lonely counterparts on a dance floor. Sounds like a scorecard situation to me.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #26

    Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #27

    Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn't hesitate

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #28

    That's my little piece of heaven. Go ahead.
    Ciro followed Remo through the open door to a small enclosed garden. Terra-cotta pots positioned along the top of the stone wall spilled over with red geraniums and orange impatiens. An elm tree with a wide trunk and deep roots filled the center of the garden. Its green leaves and thick branches reached past the roof of Remo's building, creating a canopy over the garden. There was a small white marble birdbath, gray with soot, flanked by two deep wicker armchairs.
    Remo fished a cigarette out of his pocket, offering another to Ciro as both men took a seat. This is where I come to think.
    Va bene, Ciro said as he looked up into the tree. He remembered the thousands of trees that blanketed the Alps; here on Mulberry Street, one tree with peeling gray bark and holes in its leaves was cause for celebration.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #29

    That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.

  • Adriana Trigiani Quote #30

    The dance that I wasn't going to attend in about a jillion years just turned into a make-out session with random boys we have never met.

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