Adriana Trigiani

“Do Italians tell you everything they feel without censor?”

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

When I was young, I was stupid, and I thought maybe I would write the fancy stuff.

— Adriana Trigiani

“A higher goal is always reached by overcoming fear.”

— Adriana Trigiani

“The first stage of widowhood is paperwork.”

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

— Adriana Trigiani

“the lane. I turn to Jack. “What do you think?”

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.

— Adriana Trigiani

“Somewhere in my past, I learned that if you separate yourself, you don't get hurt. Pain can be avoided.”

— Adriana Trigiani

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

— Adriana Trigiani

I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a…

— Adriana Trigiani

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come…

— Adriana Trigiani

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real…

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job…

— Adriana Trigiani

“Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our…

— Adriana Trigiani

“You'll always be my girl. You were from the first moment I saw you. You were sitting in church with your brothers.…

— Adriana Trigiani

“All your life you was one thing. And now you can be something else if you want! Somebody completely different. You can…

— Adriana Trigiani

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew…

— Adriana Trigiani

I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at…

— Adriana Trigiani

“At long last, somebody believes in her. Tonight in this exchange she has gained the tools with which she will build her…

— Adriana Trigiani

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it,…

— Adriana Trigiani

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer…

— Adriana Trigiani

The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down…

— Adriana Trigiani

“Roberto is a man, and they always said it and I never believed it, but it's true - a man is forgiven.…

— Adriana Trigiani

“Take nothing and no one for granted. Time used to be my friend, and now it’s a skittish acquaintance at best. Let…

— Adriana Trigiani

“that’s why Kathleen.” Alfred doesn’t answer. We sit in silence until he says, “I’m sorry you walked in on us. I’m a…

— Adriana Trigiani

“I listen while my brothers-in-law and father talk college football, as always, the chatter loops around to Notre Dame, and will the…

— Adriana Trigiani

“Ciro had made a bet in proposing to her, and on that same day, Enza made a bet of her own. She…

— Adriana Trigiani

'All the Stars in the Heavens' takes place during the golden age of Hollywood, around an imagined story about Loretta Young; Clark…

— Adriana Trigiani

“The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother.”

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

“There isn’t anything a parent won’t do for her child. There is no limit on love.”

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

“Nationalism had now replaced neighborliness.”

— Adriana Trigiani

“.. its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them”

— Adriana Trigiani