adriana trigiani Quotes

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.

- Adriana Trigiani

A good mother is irreplaceable.

- Adriana Trigiani

I even love the smell of books.

- Adriana Trigiani

As a matter of habit, I stop and pick up seashells that interest me, and I always put the ones I really like in a lovely Baccarat bowl in my living room. It's my way of remembering that I once was young and carefree.

- Adriana Trigiani, Rococo

The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'

- Adriana Trigiani

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

- Adriana Trigiani

When I observe Gram, I see how fragile the notion of tradition can be. If I take my eyes off the way she kneads her Easter bread, or if I fail to study the way she sews a seam in suede, or if I lose the mental image I have of her when she negotiates a better deal with a button salesman, somehow, the very essence of her will be lost. When she goes, the responsibility for carrying on will fall to me. My mother says I’m the keeper of the flame, because I work here, and because I choose to live here. A flame is a very fragile thing, too, and there are times when I wonder if I’m the on who can keep it going.

- Adriana Trigiani

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

- Adriana Trigiani

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

- Adriana Trigiani

What a boon to live on the water! Such delicious shades and hues! This is a template worthy of the greatest painters. The textures of sand and stone could inspire incomparable sculptures, and the sounds - the steady lapping of the waves, the sweet chirping of the birds, make this a sanctuary.

- Adriana Trigiani, Rococo

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.