Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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.
Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.
The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible
I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.
Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
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.
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)
My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...
Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.
He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.
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
Ciro carried himself like a general in full regalia, when in fact he wore secondhand clothes from the donation bin.
I loved him more than he loved me, and that is a bad place for a woman to be.
This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap...
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.
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.
He just likes to have fun, Papa.""That's not a quality that gets you far in life.
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.