Adriana Trigiani Quotes, Mean Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Let life unfold, say what you mean. 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. You can’t know if you’ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.

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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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Motherhood changes everything.

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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.

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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?

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

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

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

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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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For a woman, love is the highest dream, 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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Women move through the world never knowing their power.

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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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This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

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I even love the smell of books.

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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

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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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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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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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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.

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

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