Adriana Trigiani Quotes, Writing Quotes, Emotional Quotes

The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

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I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

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Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. 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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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.

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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.

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And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

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

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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

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

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I even love the smell of books.

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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.

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

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Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

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This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.

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