Adriana Trigiani

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -…

— Adriana Trigiani

“The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.”

— Adriana Trigiani

I don't leave the house without a book, and I never watch television without one, either.

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

“Tonight, I am a Perfect Girl, because I had a perfect night. And it ended with three perfect kisses. Three. What a…

— Adriana Trigiani

“There's nothing sad about loving someone so much that nothing makes sense without him. It's the definition of joy.”

— Adriana Trigiani

Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a…

— Adriana Trigiani

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the…

— Adriana Trigiani

Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make.…

— Adriana Trigiani

There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch…

— Adriana Trigiani

I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much…

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“She savored their conversation, and often, when doing her chores, she remembered the words he said to her and how hopeful he…

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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've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that…

— Adriana Trigiani

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach…

— Adriana Trigiani

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days.…

— Adriana Trigiani

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading…

— Adriana Trigiani

But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat…

— Adriana Trigiani

“Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that…

— Adriana Trigiani

Koverman is one of my favorite Hollywood characters because she was the brains of MGM, and not many people know about her.

— Adriana Trigiani

“Sometimes redemption lands in your life like a bird and looks you straight in the eye, even when you believe you don't…

— Adriana Trigiani

All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by...

— Adriana Trigiani

“Enza thought no place on earth could be colder than the Italian Alps, but now she knew she just had never been…

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

“He figured that all the threads of his experience would eventually be sewn together, taking shape in harmony and form to create…

— Adriana Trigiani

Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room.…

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

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

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the…

— Adriana Trigiani

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

— Adriana Trigiani

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

“Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do.…

— Adriana Trigiani

“What you love, I love. What worries you, worries me. What you dream of, I will try and make come true.”

— Adriana Trigiani

“How can you quantify the moment when a person laughs, or when they cry, when they feel? You can't. It's the human…

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Adriana Trigiani

Everything I've done in my life has been dictated by the fact that I like to be home at night and in…

— Adriana Trigiani