Sperantza Adriana Quotes

Each poor immigrant girl had a plan in place to survive. Some had brothers or fathers for protection, others, young husbands; but for all of them, the first line of defense was their scissors. ~ Adriana Trigiani

Women give men a place to go. A man is a useless piece of equipment whose purpose is lost if it were not for women ...
It's like this. A man might go out and get a job, but only for someplace to go during the day. And he's only working that job to give the money to his wife. And then, if he does really well ... to buy her good jewelry. And only because she asks for it. Diamonds aren't a man's idea. The first woman sent the first man into a hole in the ground, and when he emerged with the first diamond she looked at it and said, 'It's too small. Dig farther. Men are not ambitious outside of their desire to impress women. A woman, in return, gives a man's life shape. A context. A place to go. It's very simple. ~ Adriana Trigiani

A man who needs a mirror is looking for something. ~ Adriana Trigiani

Who's the artist?"
"My favorite." She pauses. "Unknown." Edydie sits cross-legged on the couch. "There is something so pure about an artist creating something for the sheer joy of it, then sharing it with people and claiming no credit. To me that's the height of romance. ~ 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 boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable. ~ Adriana Trigiani

The first stage of widowhood is paperwork. ~ Adriana Trigiani

The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that no matter how slow you'll go, they'll never run after you ~ Luna Adriana

That we looked out for one another- that we watched out for each other's kids and shared the harvest of our gardens and took care of our old people, and when we did the little things, like bake a cake, we'd bake two, one for our home and one for the neighbor. ~ Adriana Trigiani

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. ~ Adriana Lima

Love doesn't hurt. Loving the wrong person is.. ~ Luna Adriana

Women move through the world never knowing their power. ~ Adriana Trigiani

There is no worse feeling than being unable to assuage the suffering of the innocent. ~ Adriana Trigiani

The foundation of a marriage is love. The walls of a shared life are built with trust, loyalty, and respect. Once those are torn down, there's nothing left standing. ~ Adriana Locke

When I was young, around 5, I was crying in all the pictures of me. I did not like the flash; it scared me! ~ Adriana Lima

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute. ~ Adriana Lima

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

For young fellows like them, the war was a chance to become men, to see the world and save it and return home as American citizens. 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. ~ Adriana Trigiani

The operators were bound together by what they were running from - poverty in all its forms, despair, hunger, decimated families - as well as what they hoped to gain. Their imaginations were filled with American treasures: ~ Adriana Trigiani

The distance between the haves and the have-nots is a train ride. ~ Adriana Trigiani

going away with a guy I don't know for a few days seems . . . extreme?" "And ~ Adriana Locke

All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water. ~ Adriana Trigiani

But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. ~ Adriana Trigiani

My skin still sings from his touch. His cologne lingers on my shirt, the air kissed by his presence. ~ Adriana Locke

To really care for another is a reason to live. When that beauty was blotted out of my world, I no longer wanted to be in it. ~ Adriana Mather

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. ~ Adriana Trigiani

Is it not by learning to read the book of nature with the eyes of faith that we come to recognize the drop of divinity that resides in our own souls though hidden, master? In the end is this not faith; to seek the light that takes us further, the light of Christ that brings that to which reason and knowledge alone can never raise itself? This is truth! ~ Adriana Koulias

You feel a loss of control?"

"Never… Never had control to begin with. ~ Adriana Anders

He figured that all the threads of his experience would eventually be sewn together, taking shape in harmony and form to create a glorious work of art. ~ Adriana Trigiani

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft. ~ Adriana Trigiani

Carlos had gotten up and gone to play with the cat. I asked its name and Florence said Salmon, and Carlos thought it was funny for a cat to have a fish name. ~ Adriana Lisboa

He whispered, "That miracle you were praying for - he's patiently waiting his turn to hold you."
Laura lifted her head from John's chest, focusing on the faces around her. At last, her eyes fell upon him. Tony smiled softly. ~ Adriana Parrinello

A few days earlier, Adriana and I had been browsing books at the local library. I happened to turn around and look at her ... and that was it. The man who "loved to laugh" in Mary Poppins had nothing on us. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings. ~ Adriana Trigiani

I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn't necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts. ~ Adriana Lima

Orphans have many parents. ~ Adriana Trigiani

I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English. ~ Adriana Lima

Everything in life is on some unseen, coordinated timing mechanism. Everything is circling, staying in perfect harmony every day despite what humankind wants or needs or thinks. The Earth circles the Sun, the Moon circles the Earth, even our heartbeats are timed. As you go through life, remember that. Nothing is random and nothing is coincidence. Everything is running on a schedule, a pattern that we don't see or control. ~ Adriana Locke

Jonas Haines of Broken Bird Marries Model Adriana Rivera in Vegas ~ Kristen Ashley

Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven. ~ Adriana Trigiani

Suddenly, he understood why he couldn't have her back then, or now. Or ever.

He was a starving man and she was an oasis, a hallucination, a single sparkling drop of water in his desiccated world. And the problem with giving in, drinking that water, getting just one little taste, was that he'd know exactly what he'd been missing. And he'd never, ever be able to go back. ~ Adriana Anders

There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything. ~ Luna Adriana

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver? ~ Adriana Lima

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 ~ Adriana Trigiani

Luce," he said at last, his voice soft. "what do you want me to do?" He paused, waiting for my response, but I wasn't sure what he was asking, so no response came.
"Please, just tell me," he continued. "Tell me what you want me to say, and do, when it comes to Adriana or any other girl that looks my way, and I'll do it. You want me to fire a spit wad between their eyes? So be it. You want me to flip them off any time any one of them looks my way? You got it. You want me to poke my eyes out so I can't see another one of their suggestive smiles again?" he trailed on, half of his face squishing together. "Well, that would suck, but I'd do it. For you." Cradling my face in his hands again, he leaned forward so his eyes were staring into mine from half a foot away. "Just tell me, baby. What do you want me to do? ~ Nicole Williams

That," Adriana said, "is a puzzling mystery that must be solved. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Salad of baby spinach, artichoke hearts, and slices of fig, drizzled with olive oil and salt and a little fresh lemon juice, ~ Adriana Trigiani

When I look at you, I don't just see the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. I see the next sixty years of my life. ~ Adriana Locke

You have more power than you know, Samantha. You just have to be brave enough to realize it. ~ Adriana Mather

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 ~ Adriana Trigiani