Quotes from Adriana Trigiani

The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown. Ciro

held hope in his heart like a hundred stars.

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 haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety." Colin

You take every salesman that walks into this shop at his word—why not Gianluca?

It didn't occur to either of them that lives would be lost, that the world they were to defend would shift under their feet and never be the same again. They only dreamed of the adventure. A

I realize now that a happy mother might very well make a joyful child.

Even when we're broken, we're beautiful.

It seems that the people with passion never get the thing they're after.

I wonder if he knows that every time I make a joke, a little piece of my heart breaks off. It's just self-defense. It seems whenever we get close, he leaves.

There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan

I only wish I had more of myself to give; somehow my heart does not seem big enough to hold what I feel for him.

Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

But now I know that youth isn't waiting for you on the other side of wisdom.

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.

were, and your people. Lucky was the woman who had a friend from the age of ten, when girls were brave, gutsy, and full of questions and had the time and pep to seek the answers. That friend knew who you really were. That friend had seen your soul.

The best actors work the hardest but make it look easy. You have to master your nerves to do the job. You have to be willing to make a fool out of yourself. After a while, if you're smart and paying attention, bit by bit, line by line, you begin to understand how to interpret a character.

Lucky was the woman who kept a childhood friend because that friend remembered what you looked like, who you

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

first impression is often just that, a quick snapshot that on its own merit is meaningless. After a vacation, in time, it gets lost in a shoe box full of them.

Powder and lipstick are the tank and the rifle in a woman's beauty arsenal." The

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the

Ciro, who loved machinery and its design, thought the tanks were ugly. What beauty could be found in something that was created with the sole purpose of destruction?

It seemed to Ciro that so much of life was about not holding on, but letting go and in so doing, the beauty of the past and the happiness he felt then came full circle like a band of gold.

A man who can seduce with a turn of phrase will not disappoint in the bedroom.