236 Quotes by 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.

The young have everything but wisdom.

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

Children need to see delight in the eyes of adults, if only to give them a sense that happiness is within reach, even when it isn't. Adults should be full of possibility, so the children might develop a sense of adventure. Children should live with the confidence that they are loved. Love frees them to embrace adventure, to seek truth, and to take care of one another.

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

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

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.

The dance that I wasn't going to attend in about a jillion years just turned into a make-out session with random boys we have never met.

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